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FASTVet We offer online and in-person courses teaching Global FAST Point of Care Ultrasound. FASTvet.com provides online ultrasound support for veterinary sonographers.

FASTVet.com provides educational resources for veterinary professionals that want to learn ultrasound as an everyday essential skill in their veterinary practice. We provide training for veterinarians including online courses, video library and bi-weekly blogs. We also train veterinarians in focused ultrasound techniques including abdominal FAST, thoracic FAST and lung ultrasound. The training is ideal for non-radiologist veterinarians including emergency veterinarians, internists, and general practitioners and will revolutionize your use of ultrasound to improve patient care in you practice.

FASTVet can travel to your hospital and train your team to perform Global FAST® POCUS. Our standardized approach to POC...
09/17/2026

FASTVet can travel to your hospital and train your team to perform Global FAST® POCUS. Our standardized approach to POCUS will help your team improve patient care in your practice. You will learn AFAST® POCUS, TFAST® POCUS and Vet BLUE® POCUS. Start using these skills immediately after the hands on scanning session at your practice. Go to FASTVet.com for more information! Phttps://www.instagram.com/p/DdX9RxoCJ5M/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

09/16/2026

The answer is that this dog presented to me as a 16-year old neutered male Labrador Retriever
for “Urinating on himself” and I would have with traditional training worked the dog up for
polyuria-polydipsia (PU/PD) thinking he had renal disease or another cause of PU/PD, and
wasn’t being walked enough. If I didn’t use Global FAS T® Point of Care Ultrasound as an
extension of my physical exam, I would have missed his primary problem based on physical
exam, laboratory testing, and radiography.
Physical exam was unremarkable other than he was underweight. The moral of the story,
“Never under-estimate the power of Global FAST® - combining AFAST®, TFAST® and Vet BLUE® -
as part of your physical exam.” On TFAST® echo views, I identified a mass occluding the short
axis left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) from the right TFAST® pericardial site view. This dog
was at risk for sudden death and his clinical signs are most likely because he is borderline
syncopal due to the outflow tract obstruction. The good news was that based on Global FAST®
there were no obvious metastases, however, this mass is in an unforgiving anatomical region.
Want to learn more about Global FAST® Point of Care Ultrasound? This is an easily achievable
skill using our standardized formats. Take our Online or In Person courses. We travel
throughout the USA and internationally have been to many countries teaching our 11-hours
RACE-approved Global FAST® Course on your machines, or you may travel to Austin, Texas or
Nashville, Tennessee to one of our training centers. Check out FASTVet.com
Learn from Gregory Lisciandro, DVM, DABVP, DACVECC. Dr. Lisciandro has been teaching and
updating these formats for the last 14 years. He has worked as both a primary care
veterinarian and ER vet, living and breathing these point-of-care formats while managing his
patients. This is another great case that Dr. Greg Lisciandro managed as a primary care
veterinarian using Global FAS T® Point of Care Ultrasound as an extension of the physical exam

09/14/2026

When pneumothorax is suspected, next you need to look for the "lung Point", the place where the lung recontacts the thoracic wall. Its location does a few things:
1) the "Lung Point" confirms the presence of pneumothorax, 2) the "Lung Point" semi quantitates the degree of pneumothorax by the "TFAST® One-thirds Rule", and 3) the "Lung Point" serves as a tracking tool for that patient.

The video shows the "Lung Point" where the "Lung Sliding" comes in from the right and slides over the pneumothorax to the left. The lung point is where the lung recontacts the wall.

Use the QR Code and watch our 12-minute webinar short on pneumothorax and the clinical use of the "TFAST® One-thirds Rule" of the "Lung Point" to better care for your patients!

09/11/2026

Does this dog have pneumothorax?

You start clipping up the wound over the thorax and find a potential sucking wound that could be an open thorax and causing a pneumothorax when the leg is lifted...what are your diagnostic options?

1) Use your stethoscope.

2) Transport down to Radiology and take radiographs.

3) Get the ultrasound probe and using TFAST® place the probe at the least gravity dependent region of the thoracic cage directly above the xiphoid.

The answer is 3) as this patient is breathing slowly and using our "One-eyed Gator Sign" technique, the "Lung Sliding" can be quickly evaluated. When "Lung Sliding" is present (as noted in this case), it rules out any clinically relevant pneumothorax. You should be able to see the "Lung Sliding" on the image as coordinated movement "to and fro" in synchrony with phases of respiration. Thus, this dog has no pneumothorax determined quickly with minimal patient risk. Note the date of this case, December 14, 2013. The "One-eyed Gator Sign" technique is another FASTVet original.

Your stethoscope is unreliable. Transport to Radiology is time, labor, and risk to the patient. Using the TFAST® technique takes seconds and quickly rules in or rules out pneumothorax.

When imaging lung, i.e., TFAST® and Vet BLUE®, make it a habit to pause over the rib in the center of the screen, "One-eyed Gator Sign", to become confident with the evaluation for "Lung Sliding" and learning how your machine images "Lung Sliding."

Uniquely, the "TFAST® One-thirds Rule", the location of the "Lung Point", can semi-quantitative degree of pneumothorax and serves also as a tracking tool discussed in our forthcoming REEL. Check out a webinar short on this on our website FASTVet.com in our Free Resources Category.

Ready to take your Global FAST® POCUS skills to the next level? 🔍🐾Go beyond simply acquiring images. Learn how to recogn...
09/09/2026

Ready to take your Global FAST® POCUS skills to the next level? 🔍🐾Go beyond simply acquiring images. Learn how to recognize clinically relevant findings and use Global FAST® POCUS to support triage, patient monitoring, staging, and clinical decision-making.

Join us December 3-4, 2026 for our Extended 2-Day Global FAST® Point-of-Care Ultrasound Course. This intensive, hands-on learning experience is designed to bring point-of-care ultrasound into everyday veterinary practice.

🎓RACE Approved for 16 hours of Live Medical CE Credits

Over two days, we’ll dive into:

✔️AFAST® abdominal POCUS
✔️TFAST® thoracic & fundamental echocardiography
✔️Vet BLUE® lung ultrasound
✔️Global FAST® integration & clinical applications
✔️Ultrasound-guided procedures
✔️Hands-on scanning with live dogs

With advanced case applications, procedural training, and a dedicated Live Dogs Global FAST® scanning session, you'll have opportunities to put your skills into practice and gain confidence with the ultrasound machine.

⚠️Small class size = limited space!
👉Register today for December 3–4, 2026, and elevate your POCUS skills with Global FAST®

Registration link: https://fastvet.com/extended-2-day-ultrasound-course-in-austin-global-fast-pocus-scanning-and-ultrasound-guided-procedures-lab/

09/02/2026

What Are Your Major Rule-Outs?

1. Not normal — dietary disease

2. Not normal — hereditary disease

3. Not normal — infectious disease

4. Normal — this is a shelter puppy, so send home with antibiotics for “kennel cough”

The correct answer is 3: infectious disease.

This cardiac presentation is classic for Chagas disease, which is common enough in South Central Texas to be an important differential diagnosis. Chagas is caused by infection with Trypanosoma cruzi and can cause myocardial dysfunction and ultimately congestive heart failure. This young dog also had B lines consistent with pulmonary edema.

Without a Global FAST® examination, this young dog could easily have been diagnosed with “kennel cough” and sent home with antibiotics—despite having a serious underlying disease.

Our recent Reels reviewed the Global FAST® Fallback Views, which are important to combine with TFAST® fundamental echocardiography. This puppy had B lines on Vet BLUE ® lung ultrasound and findings were consistent with pulmonary edema.

Ready to advance your POCUS skills?

Take one of our online or in-person courses. We travel throughout the United States and internationally to teach our 11-hour, RACE-approved Global FAST® POCUS Course at your practice.

Learn from Gregory Lisciandro, DVM, DABVP, DACVECC, who has taught, applied, and continually updated these POCUS formats since 2005. He has long promoted Global FAST® POCUS as “an extension of the physical examination.”

Visit FASTVet.com to learn more. Never underestimate the POWER of Global FAST®!

FASTVet is the leader in veterinary point-of-care ultrasound training! Our unique Global FAST® approach combines the use...
08/26/2026

FASTVet is the leader in veterinary point-of-care ultrasound training! Our unique Global FAST® approach combines the use of AFAST® (abdominal), TFAST® (thoracic), and Vet BLUE® (lung), into a single systematic and standardized ultrasound examination. Our mission is to make Global FAST® Point of Care ultrasound a core skill for all practicing veterinarians worldwide.

Our RACE-approved CE courses and hands-on scanning labs are for anybody who wants to:

🩺 Use ultrasound as a daily, clinical extension of the physical exam
🎓 Earn RACE-approved continuing education while growing your clinical skillset
🏥 Improve outcomes for critical patients via rapid, standardized use of ultrasound imaging

Since 2005, FASTVet has continued to lead in the development, clinical research, and validation of our Global FAST® approach. Join us on our mission to make clinical ultrasound a core skill for veterinarians worldwide! Learn more about our history, founders, and methodology at: https://fastvet.com/what-is-fastvet/

08/25/2026

Is this dog's heart normal?

What's your answer:
1. Yes. The heart has good filling and contractility. This young dog is fine and can be sent home with cough medication.

2. No. The heart appears enlarged and has poor contractility. This young dog has a serious problem.

3. Indeterminate. It is not possible to tell from this view.

The correct answer is 2. This young dog from South Central Texas has poor cardiac contractility—and had already survived a surgical procedure, a castration, before the problem was recognized.

Never underestimate the clinical power of Global FAST® POCUS!

In our next Reel, we will discuss the differential diagnoses for this patient.

However, do not stop after examining the heart. Perform the complete Global FAST® examination.

Perform Vet BLUE® to assess for pulmonary edema. Also, the AFAST®-TFAST® Diaphragmatico-Hepatic (DH) View can help determine whether right-sided congestive heart failure is present. Important findings include a “FAT,” enlarged caudal vena cava and the “Tree Trunk Sign” of hepatic venous congestion.

Our recent Reels described the Global FAST® Fallback Views, which are important to combine with TFAST® fundamental echocardiography. Vet BLUE® Lung Ultrasound is the fallback view for left sided heart failure and the DH view with evaluation of the CVC is the fallback view for right sided heart failure.

Want to advance your POCUS skills?

Take one of our online or in-person courses. We travel throughout the United States and internationally to teach our 11-hour, RACE-approved Global FAST® POCUS Course using your own ultrasound machines.

Learn from Gregory Lisciandro, DVM, DABVP, DACVECC, who has taught, applied, and continually updated these POCUS formats since 2005. Through years of managing real patients, he has promoted Global FAST® POCUS as “an extension of the physical examination.Visit FASTVet.com to learn more.

08/20/2026

Image A shows the left caudodorsal Vet BLUE® lung region in this dog. The same
finding is present at all eight Vet BLUE® lung regions (dry lung all views). Image B shows the AFAST®– TFAST® diaphragmatico-hepatic (DH) view, including the heart and caudal vena
cava (CVC).

What is the probability that this dog has clinically relevant right-sided
congestive heart failure (R-CHF)?
1. High: >90%
2. Intermediate: approximately 50%
3. Low:

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