Nursing Lab values

• 0.6-1.2 mg/Dl
• >4 mg/dl (indicates serious impairment in renal function)

• 3.5-5 g/dL
• maintain colloidal osmotic pressure.
• measureof hepatic function.

1.020 to 1.028

10-20 mg/dL

• up to 20 mm/hr
• ^Chronic renal failure

• 0-160 units/L
• elevated acute pancreatitis/Renal failure

• Adult/elderly: 15-36 mg/dL
• <10.7 mg/dL indicate severe nutritional deficiency

• Alanine aminotransferase
• 4-36 international units/L at 37° C or 4-36 units/L (SI units)

• Increased values indicate possible:
• Liver disease
• Hepatitis
• Cirrhosis

Injury or disease affecting the liver, heart, or skeletal muscles will cause a release of this enzyme

• 0.3-1.0mg/dL
• evaluate liver function

• Increased values indicate possible:
• Hemolysis
• Biliary obstruction
• Hepatic damage

9.0-10.5 mg/dL (values decrease in older adults)

• Decreased values indicate possible:
• Malabsorption
• Renal failure
• Acute pancreatitis

3.5-5.0 mEq/L or 3.5-5.0 mmol/L

• Decreased values indicate possible:
• Vomiting
• Gastric suctioning
• Diarrhea
• Drainage from intestinal fistulas

3.5-5.0 g/dL

• Decreased values indicate possible:
• Hepatic disease

Aspartate aminotransferase

5-40 units/L

• Increased values indicate possible:
• Liver disease
• Hepatitis
• Cirrhosis

30-85 international units/L or 42-128 units/L (SI units)

• Increased values indicate possible:
• Hepatic disease
• Biliary obstruction

15-110 mg/dL

• Increased values indicate possible:
• Hepatic disease such as cirrhosis

56-90 international units/L or 25-125 units/L (SI units)

• Increased
• Acute pancreatitis

0-110 units/L

• Increased
• Acute pancreatitis

<200 mg/dL

• increased values indicate possible:
• Pancreatitis
• Biliary obstruction

• Decreasedvalues indicate possible:
• Liver cell damage

• 60-120
• detect and monitor the clinical course ofpancreatitis.

• 10-80 mcg/dL
• diagnosis of severe liver diseases

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR). 87- 107 mL/min

11.0-12.5 seconds

Partial thromboplastin time (PTT, aPTT normal ranges are 20-30 sec

(4.2-6.1) ×10^6 /microL

• Normal Findings Adult/elderly:
• 150,000-400,000/mm 3

• Critical Values <50,000
• or >1 million/mm 3

• (37%-52%)
• how red/howpacked packed cell volume of red cells

(12-18 g/dL)

95% or higher

5k-10k

• <100 pg/mL
• identify and stratify patients with congestive heart failure (CHF).

• ................Normal..........Acid...........Base
• pH .........7.35–7.45...... <7.35........>7.45
• PaCO2...35–45 mm Hg >45.......<35resp
• HCO3....22–26 mEq/L.<22.....>26kidney
• Bicarb