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Topic Overview. A comprehensive metabolic panel is a blood test that measures your sugar (glucose) level, electrolyte and fluid balance, kidney function, and liver function.Glucose is a type of sugar your body uses for energy. Electrolytes keep your body's fluids in balance.t also controls the amounts of glucose, protein, and fat in the blood and releases substances that keep your immune system healthy. Your doctor may order a comprehensive metabolic panel as part of a regular health examination.
A comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) is a blood test that provides information about a person's liver and kidneys, body sugar and protein levels, and electrolyte and fluid balance. Doctors order a CMP test to help diagnose liver disease or kidney disease, as well as conditions like diabetes. Doctors also use this test to monitor people who have health problems or are taking certain medicines. Several different tests are done in a comprehensive metabolic panel. It includes all the tests in the basic metabolic panel, in addition to a few others. The good news is you should only need to get blood taken once. The lab uses the same blood sample to run all the tests. The CMP helps doctors look at: Glucose. The body uses this type of sugar for energy.