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INR >100. Alive.

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Specializes in ICU.

The lowest BG I saw was 11. She was slurring her words and couldn't sit up straight. She'd been perfectly coherent at 26 the day before.

Ammonia 1102. Alive for about 12 hours longer after that.

K+ 9.8. Very dead.

WBC 64,000, very septic. Lived a couple of days...

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

WBC - 64,000 ? That's a veritable tsunami.​

Platelets 1.4 million!

Specializes in NICU, telemetry.

K of 11.7. "Alive", but that didn't last but a few hours longer.

Procalcitonin 175, alive and survived.

WBC 154, lived for several more days.

Specializes in ICU.
The lowest BG I saw was 11. She was slurring her words and couldn't sit up straight. She'd been perfectly coherent at 26 the day before.

Ammonia 1102. Alive for about 12 hours longer after that.

K+ 9.8. Very dead.

WBC 64,000, very septic. Lived a couple of days...

OMG!! 64,000?

Specializes in LTC & home care.

Triglycerides 2200. Alive. (And typing this post...)

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

BGL - 3. Alive but unconscious naturally

We were just talking about ETOH at work and playing high score. Worst a doc told us he saw was 0.96. We would regularly see 0.55 and 0.6 from the career drinkers but dang almost 1% of your blood is booze.

Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

Saw once WBC of >100.000 . Untreated AML, the blood was kind of whitish pinky liquid as hb and everything else was correspondingly low.

Died.

Specializes in Orthopedics, Med-Surg.

WBCs 150,000's, alive. Untreated lymphoma.

Specializes in Oncology.

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

K+ - 9.6 - coded, got her back. Then her POA withdrew care. She died about 15 minutes after we extubated.

Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Forgot about the 13.7 INR. Alive at the time the results came back, but could not bring it down, died a couple of days later

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