Now THAT'S a lab result

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INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Critical Care Nursing.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever seen a pH below 6? I highly doubt it's possible, but then again, who would've thought people could live with some of the lab values posted here.

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Glucose 1440: Alive and oriented

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Specializes in Nursing Faculty, ER Nurse.

BGL 17- bagged until he started breathing again on his own after some glucose, sat straight up and exclaimed "what the ****?!"

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Specializes in Critical care.
Lactic Acid of 43.6. Alive, as far as I know.

His glucose was also 19, our suspcion is that he was that low for a few days. Then he started anaerobically metabolizing. Can't prove it, of course, but sounds right. He wasn't hypotensive, tachycardic or tachypneic.

Bad liver? The Cori cycle converts lactate to glucose in the liver.

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Specializes in ER.
Bad liver? The Cori cycle converts lactate to glucose in the liver.

Honestly, I don't know. I was in charge that night & didn't get the full story. Just enough to go "wth?"

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Hgb of 1.3. Alive. Shipped straight to ICU

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Specializes in NICU.

K 10 in a neonate. Died but stayed at that level for days

Ca 17 in a neonate. Alive.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I had a patient last night with a platelet count of over 1000. And he was actually bleeding. Go figure.

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Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

Glucose by lab less than 1, yes one. Just recently had a pt with ammonia of 189!!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Bedside glucose of 12 initially, then too low to read. He was unresponsive. Required 2x doses of IM glucagon and 2x amps IV dextrose before it got above 60. He didn't have IV access initially either...

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
I had a patient last night with a platelet count of over 1000. And he was actually bleeding. Go figure.

I realize this can be confusing. The number that showed up was like 1293 or something which really means his platelet count was super high (1,293,000) and way above the 450K upper limit.

Apparently he was on some cancer? drug which can cause elevated platelet counts.

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Specializes in ICU.

Troponin>200. Did not survive.

Pa CO2 140 on ABG trending up after 4 hrs on BiPaP. DNI. Awake and lucid. Did not survive.

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