remembering lab values r.o

[jlynn167]

Any sayings that help you remember lab values? Here are a few I use:

I eat 3 1/2 to 5 Banana's daily (K)

8-10 years old milk (Ca)

If you eat cinnamon BUNs you will gain 10-30 lbs. (BUN)

[arrie]

Love it! Do you have any more??

[jbedwards]

you have to be 13-21 to shoot a gun (mag [lol, a gun]): levels are 1.3-2.1

[savinglives101]

Chloride sounds kinda like chlorine and chlorine is in swimming pool, so usually you'd go swimming at 96-106 degree weather :)

[JasonKa]

these are pretty good

[Lola Lou, BSN]

This may be stretching it but it helped me...

Hemoglobin normal value is 12-18 (that's the low end for female and high end for male). So I focus on the MO in heMOglobin and think that kids 12-18 tend to MO( or mow) lawns for money.

[smurfynursey]

I think of lab values as money. It really helps when you are explaining things to patients

(ie, you want 12 dollars and you have $11.50)

[Mesiam]

these are great!

[Dpadilla]

Just a question about the title of your topic ...what is r.o?

Calcium is good for your bones, such as your teeth. When a cute guy has nice teeth, you'll rate him a 8.5 to 10.5 MG/L if the scale was 1-10...lol

LITHIUM IS 0.8-1.5

15 minus 8 =7

There are 7 letters in the word "lithium"

[Nursebetty2007]

Thanks I couldn't memorize mag or chloride for anything!!! What about for phosphorus?

[Karmatism]

I don't have any cute tricks to remember but I memorized mine by putting them all on a hot pink index card and keeping it in my car. It catches my attention all the time when I'm sitting in traffic or something. It only takes a minute or two to read the whole thing and I've done it do many times, they finally just stuck.

[littlestbird]

2.4 - 4.4 phos4us

I read 1.5-2.5 MAGazines in a doctor's waiting room

Ca++ is a little more than 7-11, in a pinch you can run to 7-11 for milk, but it'll cost a little more

Anyone have something for coag studies (aPTT, PT, INR)