My last week on A2A

My patient this week was an 89 year old with a UTI and weakness. She fell 2 times at home and her family brought her in. Going over all her labs I found that her CPK levels were very high (666 day 1 and 682 day 2). I knew what the labs where based on but didn’t pertain to her. (I will say that working with the labs more and more it’s amazing what you find out!) So I looked at her history and she had hypothyroidism. Well I researched and found out that CPK levels are increased because of it. Also her H&H was a little low that showed possible mild anemia. Well that promotes weakness, which she had. And then all this leads to possible infections in the body. Well she had the UTI. So I feel that everything revolved around the hypothyroidism. So I felt pretty good about this week again. Thanks again Ashley for bathing her on Thursday for me!!!!