Now THAT'S a lab result

[emtb2rn]

INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

Hopefully he had a temporary access for dialysis!

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

He was going for temporary access the next day. He was surprisingly stable.

[ixchel]

Did he get an Echo? I'm really curious about that EF.

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

EF was 20-25...the BNP was reflecting his esrd too

[blackribbon]

Just had a pt with a BUN of 117 and she was refusing dialysis because "she didn't need it"....she only wanted us to get the fluid out of her legs (4+ bilaterally) and treat her itchy skin (which she thought benadryl would work). In the end, they were able to get some of the fluids off her (legs maybe a 2+) and she went home after two weeks of her refusing most of our treatment suggestions because she "didn't need that"...without a dialysis plan.

[jessRN465]

Hgb 3.3...

Was told a few days prior at PCP office it was extremely low at 4.0 (or something around that) and to head to the ER. Patient wanted to attend a bday party instead..

[emagine]

The turnup was more of a priority. . .

[littlepeopleRNICU]

Not really a lab, but BP high teens to low 20s over teens to high single digits...teenie preemie, maxed out on dopamine, epi, dobutamine. Dead

Seen that picture all too frequently, actually

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

I had a walking talking 34, must have been lower, because my mom got that number after she found me eating jelly with my hands on the kitchen floor.

I am not diabetic, but in college at a traditional age, I went on a partying/drinking binge without eating. I woke up the next morning, groggy, mind fuzzy, and extremely weak. Had no idea what was happening to me, but the only thought in my mind was a Snickers bar. I crawled (yes,crawled) to the vending machine, got a Snickers, ate it, and felt much better. I would have loved to know what my blood sugar was that morning.

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

Just had a pt with a BUN of 117 and she was refusing dialysis because "she didn't need it"....she only wanted us to get the fluid out of her legs (4+ bilaterally) and treat her itchy skin (which she thought benadryl would work). In the end, they were able to get some of the fluids off her (legs maybe a 2+) and she went home after two weeks of her refusing most of our treatment suggestions because she "didn't need that"...without a dialysis plan.

Why oh why....

[smile_through_it]

Hgb 2.8 ... Alive and saying she'd come back tomorrow for a transfusion because she didn't have time tonight.

[AZQuik]

Sure it's been covered. K of 1.7 Wilkie talkie.

Took them to the icu alive after pumping about 160 mEq of k into them in the Ed in about 6 hours.... She refused a central line and took 40 PO

BSN GCU 2014.

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