Nurses General Nursing
Published Jun 12, 2015
INR >100. Alive.
Skip details, just lab & living or dead.
Ruby Vee, BSN
17 Articles; 14,031 Posts
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".
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
5,047 Posts
datalore... um, yeah. Good decision. Eat a banana, really???
Lev, MSN, RN, NP
4 Articles; 2,805 Posts
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
4 Articles; 5,259 Posts
Platelets 3. After a platelet transfusion. Patient alive/asymptomatic, nurse terrified/pooping pants.
DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN
568 Posts
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
3,520 Posts
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!!"
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
208 Posts
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
496 Posts
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
426 Posts
A1c 18.2
Oh'Ello, BSN, RN
226 Posts
WBC > 120,000; alivePlatelets
Totally common findings for heme/onc populations.
T= 107.1. Alive. More concerningly, AOx3
Also a Heme/onc patient