Do I Need an EKG?

"I would get a BMP because I want to know his overall perfusion status with an interest in his creatinine," he says. "If your exam does not show jugular venous distension, you almost have a 0% chance of finding anything on the echo." He adds: "The thing is the echo, we overdo it on these cases ... It already got 500 cc of fluid and his heart rate and his blood pressure normalized"