Nurses General Nursing
Published Jun 12, 2015
INR >100. Alive.
Skip details, just lab & living or dead.
Tina, RN
513 Posts
WHOA!!!! Very interesting thread... I wish I had something to add.
guest769224
1,698 Posts
K+ 1.8
Walked out the next day.
annie.rn
546 Posts
Hgb 4.2 Alive. Sample drawn at MD's office so pt. called at home and told to come into E.R.
KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN
1 Article; 2,675 Posts
K+ 10.1. Coded, dialysed with external pacer still working, survived with no ill effects save for several broken ribs.
Hb 3.3, semi-acute, talking coherently. Survived without transfusion.
Ammonia 285, ALT > 800. Did not make it to transplant.
BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN
3,520 Posts
EMS call, glucose of 7. Couldn't give him gel b/c he was unconc (you think?!), before the days of glucagon or starting an IV in the field. Got him to ER, IV established. Awake, talking, wanting to leave all before we got our paperwork finished!
ParalyticAgent
99 Posts
Hemoglobin 1.7
Walked into the ER with a complaint of "feeling weak." Ya think?!
Altra, BSN, RN
6,255 Posts
ABG pH 6.7ish -- alive.
RunnerRN2015, ASN, RN
790 Posts
Blood glucose of 12. And TALKING coherently.
I also had one with 12. He was out of it until we started pushing D50.
AZQuik
224 Posts
ETOH 649
Talking and asking us if we had any pot lol
BSN GCU 2014. ED Residency
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RNsRWe, ASN, RN
3 Articles; 10,428 Posts
This one threw me. Tech did a finger stick (hs standing order) and came back with a glucometer reading of 'below 30'. Ok. Patient looks fine, feels fine, but he's been known to drop low and quickly, so got phlebotomy down for a draw. Took about a half hour for him to get there; patient still looks and feels just fine. Chatting amiably.
We get the call with the critical value and are asked "has anyone seen this patient lately?? Is he conscious??" LOL.....he was watching tv with the tech and making fun of the commercial!
It also wasn't a lab error, he's "done this" before (pt, that is). In fact, the prior week he was a 16.
12. And workin' it
nynursey_
642 Posts
Troponin of 48. Lactate of 14. Very much dead.
No Stars In My Eyes
4,824 Posts
Geez, and I was shocked to get a blood sugar reading of 28!
I said to the woman, "How can you be sitting here talking to me with a blood sugar of 28?"
She answered, "Well, I do feel a mite-bit puny."
(But 12 and 7 and zero? YIKES!)