Now THAT'S a lab result

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INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

INR >10 Alive but coughing up pinkish sputum.

Hgb of 3 Alive but feeling a little tired

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I had a ph of 6.something one time, patient was alive but rapidly deteriorating. Don't recall the outcome.

Not a lab result but I was at work one time when an echo revealed a patient had an aortic root aneurism that was like 20cm!!!!!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

Blood glucose of 10. This happened on two separate occasions with two different patients. ERT was called on one and was transferred elsewhere and the other way asymptomatic.

Weird.

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PT/INR of 67/9....alive but went to hospice the next day.

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Platelets 14. Alive but dying from leukemia.

INR 15. Alive and pumped with VitK

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Transplant, Education.

I work on a liver/kidney transplant unit with both pre and post transplant patients so I routinely see incredibly deranged labs on people that still somehow live (total bilirubin in the 30s, crazy high creatinines, etc) However, my most recent crazy lab was a magnesium of 0.3. Patient was totally fine, asymptomatic, ambulatory and I want to say up to 1.8 or so by the end of my shift. My lowest blood sugar ever was also recently...24. Awake and talking, though very cranky.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

And I had a patient with ha1c of 11.6.

:wideyed:

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And I had a patient with ha1c of 11.6.

:wideyed:

I had one last week with an A1C of 13.8. The doctor was flabbergasted because the highest he had seen was 11. The pt came in with visual disturbance, was ruling him out for stroke. Think maybe they found the culprit....

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Specializes in CVOR, CVICU/CTICU, CCRN-CMC-CSC.

Hgb 2.3 . . . "You're looking a little pale . . ."

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Wow mine are all beat!

Lowest BSG was 12, patient was non-responsive.

Lowest K was 1.6 on med surg.

HGB 4.2, pt was a little weak. Refused blood (Jehovah's witness).

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Specializes in Neuro/NSGY, critical care, med/stroke/tele.

This thread has me hooked..!

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Specializes in Urgent Care, Oncology.
WBCs 150,000's, alive. Untreated lymphoma.

Was this me? Because this happened to me... but I was the patient!

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