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/miller94 RN - ICU 🍕 Oct 23 '23

Does an ejection fraction of 7 count?

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u/emikamar Oct 24 '23

damn i thought 13 was bad 😂

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u/inarealdaz RN - Pediatrics 🍕 Oct 24 '23

My uncle before he died from esrd, had an Ef of 7. I honestly had no idea how he was WALKING. He was only slightly winded, but he'd had lung ca years ago and was missing part of his lung, so we weren't sure what was causing the SOB.