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A patient is brought to the hospital unconscious and is a known diabetic patient. The medic was unable to get a bedside glucose reading. Upon analysis, the laboratorian got a glucose reading of 800++ mg/dL. The ++ means the concentration is higher than the analyzer can read. As a laboratorian, explain how you would do a 1/2 dilution and what the patients actual result is if the analyzer reports a 459 mg/dL sugar following the dilution.

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Answer:

918 mg/dl is the patient's actual glucose level.

Step-by-step explanation:

459*2=918

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