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Help with labs/ESL dictator - Angel


Posted: Mar 01, 2010

This is what it sounds like.

"His WBC 11.48, and his 12.4 and 37.0 PT/PTT were normal."

It seems like "PT/PTT were normal." Should be a sentence on its own, but then I'm not sure what the 12.4 and 37.0 lab values would be for. Grr...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Angel - LoveToPaint

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The 12.4 and 37.0 could be hemoglobin and hematocrit values in this scenario.

Possible - Angel

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That does seem likely, but I don't hear anything around it that says that...or anything else.

Lab values - Karant

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Hemaglobin and hematocrit?

Help with labs - turtle

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Hemoglobin and hematocrit

and his - how about

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"and his" should be H and H

help - betty

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did u figure this out?


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