Now THAT'S a lab result

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INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

Specializes in ICU.

Bicarb 3.2

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Specializes in Emergency.
Bicarb 3.2

Damn homeslice! Assume dead, what else was going on?

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holy wow this is an interesting thread.

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Specializes in ICU.
Damn homeslice! Assume dead, what else was going on?

He was actually living and lived for like 12 more hours. It was from an ABG post respiratory code. I wish I could remember his pH and lactic because those were something crazy too. The BiCarb really stuck out in my head though.

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My first post!

Three-month-old w/ temp of 106F. Direct admit from the new free-standing ER in town, "afebrile" when leaving there, mysteriously went into a febrile seizure en route to my hospital. Lived, thankfully.

And now I have no faith in that new ER.

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Specializes in Emergency.
He was actually living and lived for like 12 more hours. It was from an ABG post respiratory code. I wish I could remember his pH and lactic because those were something crazy too. The BiCarb really stuck out in my head though.

Ahhh, post code. How long did the code go?

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Specializes in Care Coordination, Care Management.

A1C 16.7 - Alive and reports no issues.

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Wbc of 123.

Pt aox3, walking taking, hx of leukemia, denies psych history, comes to er via ambulance, chief complaint: wants mri of brain because "I'm attached to somebody in Arizona via brainwaves through satellites, he wants to kill me, been wanting to kill me ever since I was born. He killed my mother when I was young."

Pt was calm and mild mannered, cooperative, totally looks normal. Except for his wacky idea lol. (but who knows, could be true, any X-Files fans? LOLL)

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BG-12-seizing and never went above 20, died overnight

PLT-2- we put in a fem. cath while infusing platelets because the surgeon said "The count is never going to be higher then while they're infusing"

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pH 7.01

pCO2 96

pO2 88

can't for the life of me remember the bicarb

Alive

lipase >20,000 alive, not a happy camper, but alive

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Specializes in Critical care.
Question: how can you get a glucose of 1681???[emoji50][emoji50]

Statement: that's why I'm hoping to switch to ER/ICU one day. The experience you get there isn't like anything else!

Blood glucose can get much higher in HHNK (hyperosmolar hyperglycemic non-ketoacidosis) it's not uncommon to reach 1600's before being identified.

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Crea 22, BUN 190 - alive (but not sure for how long) - will not undergo dialysis.

we have a chronic patient that regularly doesn't go for his dialysis tx and when he gets weak enough he comes in with labs like that through the ER

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