Now THAT'S a lab result

Nurses General Nursing

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INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

Platelets of 42 - alive, but not allowed to get an epidural in labor

Hgb A1c - 13.4 - mother alive, fetus dead

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
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.

0.1 doesn't seem that high to me. I mean, it's high, as in shouldn't drive, legally drunk. But scary dangerous?

NVMND - reread. Not 0.1.

1.0

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Specializes in Critical Care.

BG 10 Dead.

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Specializes in CVICU CCRN.
Platelets of 42 - alive, but not allowed to get an epidural in labor

Hgb A1c - 13.4 - mother alive, fetus dead

Whoa on the A1c.

Trigs 7000+ ....blood sample labeled "turbid" and appeared to be nearly 50% fat after it settled. Alive, but died of necrotizing pancreatitis a few days later in ICU.

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Specializes in Pediatric.
Blood glucose of 12. And TALKING coherently.

Wow! Lowest I've seen was 25. Wow wow!

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Hba1c- 16.9= alive, contrary and drinks mt dew, and gallons of water a day.

Blood sugar on admission? 1345- unconscious and lived.

Urine specimen color- Brown and turbid, that was me haha, horrible kidney infection with dehydration from stomach virus, and I had no RBC in urine according to md...the lab didn't know the machine could even label brown. Took weeks to recover from that.

INR 16- alive, no active bleeding actually.

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Blood alcohol level 0.67. Awake, alert, obnoxious.

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Troponin of 126 (one hundred and twenty six).

Weird rhythm, tele room couldn't figure it, hospitalist couldn't figure it, two cardiologists in AM gave different answers.

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Specializes in General.

Hgb 4 hematocrit 11 platelets 10,000 ANC 2, my husband diagnosed aplastic anemia, the dr asked him why are you standing his reply " because there's no empty chairs"😀

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

WBCs 284,000, chronic leukemia flaring up, baseline usually 170,000

WBCs completely obliterated, like 0. Apparently, a chemo pump malfunctioned and gave him a week's worth of chemo in 24 hours. Survived.

BG 23, "I think my sugar is low"

A1c of 13.something. Newly diagnosed DM, came in with leg pain, newly diagnosed PAD too!

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Specializes in Oncology.
Platelets 14. Alive but dying from leukemia.

We don't even transfuse our leukemia patients until

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Specializes in Oncology.

My dad's A1c was 16-something. On metformin forever, refusing insulin. I told him he was going to die. Started insulin and he said he was surprised it was like his head "wasn't in the clouds" any more and he "wasn't looking through Saran Wrap any more."

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