What's you highest...?

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So yesterday I was looking after this guy with rhabdo, who came in with a CK of 243,100 and I was wondering - what's the highest value you've seen? Not necessarily CK, any value.

An example, for example - I had a woman who had a glucose of 120.8mmol/L. I don't know how to translate that into the US scale, but the normal range is around 4 - 9 in a well-controlled diabetic.

Same patient, different admission - triglycerides 8.1 (0.0 - 2.0), cholesterol 22 (?

Highest K+? 7.6mmol/L (renal patient)

Urea - 48.6, creatinine 1.18!!! (same patient, normal levels in June this year)

Highest BP 310/145 (stroke patient)

Do we have any other contenders?

ERNurse752, RN

1,323 Posts

Blood alcohol 771 in a guy who was conscious and coherent. Only c/o abd pain. He's a frequent flier...drinks Listerine when he can't buy beer.

KRVRN, BSN, RN

1,334 Posts

Specializes in NICU.

I've seen a Ca level of 17, a K of 8 and a triglycerides of over 1800... all in preemies. And going the other way, I've also seen a BP of 16/10 in a preemie.

HappyNurse2005, RN

1,640 Posts

Specializes in LDRP.

holy shnickity! 310/145 bp! wow. there was a guy today who had a BUN of 98, umm...saw someone iwth a low level, of platelets at 17,000.

love, rose

Jamesdotter

464 Posts

Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.

My mother developed ITP in her 70s. Her platelets had dropped to below 5,000 when they did her splenectomy. She did not have a spontaneous remission though ("60% of cases"), and her platelets remained below 100,000, even on steroids.

Many years ago we had an OB patient with a familial form of hyperlipemia. After this length of time, I can't remember which blood fats were involved, but I do remember that they were impossibly high and that we had her on hyperal for awhile because she couldn't tolerate oral feedings. She did have a healthy baby, and her lipid levels returned to her normal within a few weeks or months.

GAgirl

38 Posts

platelets at less than 2500.....chemo pt

dianacs

431 Posts

I had a patient with K+ of 9.3. Obviously she was very sick, but she was A&O. I forget what her telemetry showed. Eventually her levels came down.

southern rn

235 Posts

Hgb 3.0

Troponin 45

ageless

375 Posts

I have seen a potassium of 8.4, BUN of 160 and a creat of 11 in a dialysis pt.

I have also seen a cpk of over 300,000, (but over 100,000, the value is meaningless).

rn29306

533 Posts

H/H of 1 and 4. Young post-hysterectomy patient bled out at home and in ED. Pt went to surgery but stroked out. Withdrew care on my shift. :crying2:

NurseFirst

614 Posts

H/H of 1 and 4. Young post-hysterectomy patient bled out at home and in ED. Pt went to surgery but stroked out. Withdrew care on my shift. :crying2:

I think, shortly before he passed away, that my Dad had a PSA of either 13,000 or 17,000. The visiting nurse who changed the dressing on his nephrostomy said it was the highest she had heard of.

NurseFirst

Nurseboy1

294 Posts

Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

I personally came into the ER with an Amylase of 30,000 and a Lipase of 15,000 (I had hemolyzing necrotizing pancreatitis).

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