Now THAT'S a lab result

[emtb2rn]

INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

[Agatha12]

Not my experience but friend shared. Glucose-4. Practiclly dead at that point but family pushed to CPR

[BlueShoes12, BSN, RN]

K of 1.9, K of 6.6, Mag of 0.8, HGB 5.9.

100 y/o patient who was A/O x3 and ambulated easily with a stand-by assist and a walker.

[smf0903]

Recently had a little old lady with a temp of 90.1 (32.12).

Little old hoarder gentleman found in home with no heat (wind chills around -5/-10 mark) with temp of 31.9

[ICU-BSN]

K 1.0. Alive-ish. For about an hour anyways.

Platelets 23. Alive.

ABGs with a pH of 6.7. Alive-ish but not for long.

[BlueShoes12, BSN, RN]

I can update that to K of 7.6, blood glucose of 22 and HGB of 4.5. All A/O x 3 amazingly enough.

[BlueShoes12, BSN, RN]

Sorry to drag up an old thread from the grave, but had a patient who received 162 units of blood products during their stay. We think it was a hospital record!

[Guest374845]

In recent memory (and all separate pts):

WBC 330s

Glucose 1600 or 1800

Glucose 11

Dimer >5000

Trop 75 before reperfusion

Mult phs below 6.7

[Buckeye.nurse]

I haven't read through all the posts yet, but *DANG* the human body, and it's ability to compensate, is freaking amazing!!

I've never worked in the ICU, so my examples won't be quite so dramatic :/ In med-surg, the one that stands out the most is a blood gas CO2 of 130. The patient had been compensating for a long time (cystic fibrosis), so the pH wasn't actually that far off, and they were awake and talking.

A few examples from the Hematology-oncology world:

~~WBC 131,000 (admitted for treatment, and very much alive)

~~WBC

[Kitiger, RN]

I can update that to K of 7.6, blood glucose of 22 and HGB of 4.5. All A/O x 3 amazingly enough.

Wow. With potassium, we were taught that "8's the Gate!" Was the blood glucose patient diabetic?

[BlueShoes12, BSN, RN]

Wow. With potassium, we were taught that "8's the Gate!" Was the blood glucose patient diabetic?

They actually recovered, if I remember correctly. The blood glucose patient was diabetic.

[TruvyNurse]

Glucose of 18. Sitting and speaking to me. A little sweaty. He's alive and well to this day!

[smf0903]

A couple of new ones for me...AST/ALT both >2400 (unable to dilute the samples enough to get an exact number). This was after acetaminophen ingestion of ~15,000mg in a 24-hour period. Alive after about four days straight of acetadote infusions.

Lactic acid 225. Tumor lysis syndrome and patient died. I'm not sure I will ever see such a messed up set of labs on another human being ever