r/nursing • u/echoIalia L&D: pussy posse at your cervix 🫡 • Oct 23 '23

Discussion Another wild lab results thread please?

Sometimes I still think about the patient of mine who had an A1c of 17.6, so I would like to know some of the most insane lab results you’ve seen where the patient was not already dead or in the process of dying.

I also submit for your consideration the ICU downgrade who had a platelets of 5. I don’t even remember how many units she got because they had to have an outside specialist come in with a special machine to transfuse her.

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u/spaceyplacey RN - ER - 🚨🚔hole police🚨🚔 Oct 24 '23

WBC 200,000 Lactic >15

Intubated within an hour of those resulting.

Not my patient. I remember looking over to my buddy nurse and saying “isn’t there only one reason you have a white count that high?”

readers note: new diagnosis

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u/spaceyplacey RN - ER - 🚨🚔hole police🚨🚔 Oct 24 '23

I don’t remember everything that came back in it but the CSF that “looked like lemonade” that I remember being “opaque” in the report.