Now THAT'S a lab result

[emtb2rn]

INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

[Oh'Ello, BSN, RN]

Oh man. Horrid renal function? Miscalculated dose? What happened there?

No idea.... was getting HyperCVAD at an outlying facility. Came to us because of poor mtx clearance, amongst other things.

[ShortFuse_LPN, LPN]

Yes, blondy, but only after a trip to the ER.

[AZQuik]

Not the highest here but my highest. Trop 29, 47, 61 in 6 hours. Talking, 0 pain, 0 sob.

RR was 55 for most of the night. Refused cath lab.

BSN GCU 2014. ED Residency

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[nurse2be13]

K 1.8 alive

[sistrmoon, BSN, RN]

K 14. Alive.

Plenty of hgb's in the 2's, some alive, some dead. Plenty of WBC's above 100k and a few over 200k (all alive for time being). Plenty of

Sounds like Onc:)

[sissiesmama, ASN, RN]

Glucose 2700. Alive.

Crap!!

Anne, RNC

[ixchel]

270/140 BP in a mid 40s man who couldn't afford his BP meds for a few months. Alive, on dialysis for the rest of his life.

I've seen a lot of these other labs or close to them in my short tenure. Some of the troponins and INRs listed in here are quite mind blowing, though!

[sistrmoon, BSN, RN]

And another for heme/onc friends:

Methotrexate 48h = 11. Alive. But not enough leucovorin in the world to keep them alive.

We had a recent pt who went into kidney failure after methotrexate and is taking forever to clear. 24 hour level was 64 something. Couldn't put that one on the chart! 300 of leucovorin every 6h.

And alive. Finally under 1 weeks later.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

Sounds like Onc:)

The K was a chronic renal/dialysis rotation I did. The rest are heme/onc/BMT.

[L♡vER]

I see there was a higher one posted above, but saw >6500 triglycerides! Shocked me. The patient was aware of it, and had these little fatty deposits all over his body under the skin which he attributed to it?

Also working part time in oncology what I would have considered a grossly abnormal cbc looks a little different now

[calivianya, BSN, RN]

PTT >1200 - fine after a bunch of FFP.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Oncology has clearly desensitized me to abnormal lab results. I see platelet counts in the single digits all the time- many times drawn at home. The family is called and told to come in the next day for transfusion but to go to the ER if the patient starts to bleed. Platelets are not transfused until

Highest WBC count I've seen in newly diagnosed or relapsed leukemia was >500K. Also once saw a kid with an Hgb 1.9 and platelet level of 3 at diagnosis. His poor mother had been bringing him to the MD for weeks saying something was wrong and was brushed off. When they finally drew labs? Bam, ALL.