Now THAT'S a lab result

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in Emergency.

INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

pH on an ABG: 6.88. Dead. In the OR after emergently placing an LVAD. :facepalm:

ETA: he'd been dead for a while. LVAD was futile intervention #4.

Specializes in Critical Care and ED.

Ph 6.3. Very dead.

Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

Hemoglobin of 3. Sort of alive when left the OR but died later that night in ICU.

Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

Hemoglobin 2.9. Alive and talking to me.

Glucose of 1200ish. Also alive and hungry for dinner.

Specializes in ICU.

pH 6.8. Alive (at the time).

Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

Glucose 2700. Alive.

Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

pH 6.88 - very much alive

Glucose 1172 - not so much

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

BAL - .58. Alive but unconscious

Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/LDRP/Ortho ASC.

Glucose 1570-alive.

Creatinine 23-alive.

K of 10-alive, redrawn 3x because no one could believe it.

Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/LDRP/Ortho ASC.
INR >100. Alive.

Hope that one bought himself a lottery ticket.

Blood glucose of 12. And TALKING coherently.

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