In this episode of The ER Edit, we react to the craziest lab values and vital signs nurses have seen, including wild blood pressures, glucose numbers, sodium levels, troponins, ethanol levels, DKA, alcohol withdrawal, rhabdo, and BNPs that made us question reality.

We also get into the ER moments that stick with us, from patients saying they are going to die to an emotional Christmas Eve STEMI story. Then we open the Whisper Line for anonymous confessions, ICU secrets, relationship red flags, and one hospital room affair we were not prepared for.

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00:00 Tell My Wife and Daughter I Love Them

00:25 Clocking In to Episode 10

00:55 The Podcast Hits the Top 200

03:13 Craziest Labs and Vitals Nurses Have Seen

03:53 A Blood Pressure That Should Not Be Real

05:22 White Count, Sodium, Troponin, and Ethanol Chaos

08:31 The Critical Troponin Call That Taught a Lesson

10:31 Nursing Diagnosis Did Not Teach Us This

12:01 Blood Sugar of 2020 and DKA Explained

14:33 Hemoglobin Drops and a Ruptured Spleen Story

17:16 Alcohol Withdrawal Patients Are Terrifying

19:15 Rhabdo, CK Over 40000, and Flu Complications

21:54 BNP of 122000 and Heart Failure Fluid Overload

23:38 The Whisper Line Starts Getting Unhinged

26:09 The Stroke Confession That Hit Hard

31:22 Marriage Red Flags and No Caller ID Panic

35:02 When Patients Say They Are Going to Die

37:31 The Christmas Eve STEMI Story

42:29 The ICU Room Affair Nobody Was Ready For

44:00 Caught in the Hospital Bathroom