Now THAT'S a lab result

[emtb2rn]

INR >100. Alive.

Skip details, just lab & living or dead.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

AIC 14.8, glucose "too high to measure". Alive two weeks later, but long term prospects don't look so good.

Glucose of 2. Alive. Sort of.

K+ and hemoglobin both 5.2. Alive for another few weeks.

Hematocrit of 8 -- newly diagnosed acute luekemia. That one is my best friend's husband, and I'm praying that he lives.

pH of 6.7 -- alive but "delerious".

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Just thought of another one: INR 12 or 13. Alive, but at a party when the hospital called him and told him he needed to come back to the hospital. Didn't understand why he needed to be in the hospital; he felt fine. ETOH level .2 on admit. Initially refused admit but after taking a nasty fall down the stairs, level of consciouness began to wane. Currently dead.

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

datalore... um, yeah. Good decision. Eat a banana, really???

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

Na of 178. He was unconscious and twitching. He was also in shock and had a blood sugar in the 600s.

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

Platelets 3. After a platelet transfusion. Patient alive/asymptomatic, nurse terrified/pooping pants.

[DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN]

Creatinine 29 Alive - this was just last night as a matter of fact!

Troponin 1100, lab came back after the patient had passed away in the ED

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

I was working up a patient a few weeks ago, asked her what her A1C was.

"Oh, I just had it done, it was really good! Like 19. something!"[

I whipped around on my stool so fast I don't know how I stayed on. "What?! That is NOT a good number!"

My shocked face must have surprised her as much as her "good lab" surprised me.

"oh wait, I think I'm thinking of a different test. Maybe the diabetes one was 9.6"

Um, better!

TE=SubSippi;8546012]The highest I've seen is 16. Any time her BG was less than 350, she would say, "Oh that's good!!"

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

HgbA1C = 16.4 My dad. The VA doc told him to make an appointment. Was seen 5 weeks later and started on metformin. My dad didn't tell tell me about it till weeks later. VA doc told him it was "no big deal."

Picture B is what a "normal" eye looks like. Picture A is someone with Diabetic Macular Edema. They don't see very well. In order to fix it, they'll get multiple injections IN their eye. That alone would straighten me right up into getting my sugars under control!

[blackribbon]

I hung 3 units on a young woman with a hemoglobin of 4.3 last week. This was found at her doctor's office that afternoon at a regular checkup. She felt a "bit tired". She was asymptomatic for me except a bit of nausea.

[dah doh, BSN, RN]

Hgb 1.6; dead (Jehovah's Witness)

Hgb 3; alive (didn't feel well)

INR > 30; alive but vegetative coma

K 12; alive (chronic dialysis)

K 1.3; alive

Na

Troponin > 1000; alive

WBC > 120,000; alive

Lactic Acid > 100; dead

Platelets

CO2 > 130; alive

CO2 6; dead

pH 6; alive (surprising so)

[CrazyGoonRN]

A1c 18.2

[Oh'Ello, BSN, RN]

WBC > 120,000; alive

Platelets

Totally common findings for heme/onc populations.

T= 107.1. Alive. More concerningly, AOx3

Also a Heme/onc patient