FASTVet

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.

Looking to bring hands-on ultrasound training directly to your team? We travel to practices around the world to provide ...
05/27/2026

Looking to bring hands-on ultrasound training directly to your team? We travel to practices around the world to provide customized Global FAST® ultrasound training and continuing education.

So far this year, we’ve trained veterinary teams in California, North Carolina, New York, Texas, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Utah, and Pennsylvania — and we’d love to visit your practice next.

The Global FAST® Ultrasound Course curriculum is RACE-approved for 11 hours of CE and combines remote lectures with hands-on scanning instruction designed for real-world clinical application.

Learn more about the course curriculum here: https://fastvet.com/global-fast-course-curriculum-for-hybrid-remote-lectures-hands-on-scanning/

05/23/2026

Answers- Another double check is to integrate the characterization of the caudal vena cava
(CVC). What do you think the CVC will characterize as at the AFAST® DH view -"FAT", "flat", or a "Bounce"?

1) With poor LV filling as shown, the CVC is expected to be "flat" also consistent with depleted
intravascular volume within the LV on TFAST®echocardiography.

2) Post-fluid resuscitation, expect the LV to return to robust filling and contractions, and the CVC
to characterize having a "Bounce."

Go to FastVet.com to learn more!

📣Our Vet BLUE® Lung Ultrasound Course has been updated for 2026 with new and improved content! 👀 Respiratory distress? I...
05/22/2026

📣Our Vet BLUE® Lung Ultrasound Course has been updated for 2026 with new and improved content!

👀 Respiratory distress? If you can listen with a stethoscope, you can look with ultrasound! Vet BLUE® is our first-of-its-kind regional lung ultrasound exam. This powerful tool is used to assess patients with respiratory disease and congestive heart failure.

📝Learn how to assess for B-lines (edema, pneumonia, hemorrhage), nodules, consolidation, masses and PTE by learning our FASTVet Visual Lung Language.

Improve your assessment of respiratory patients! Vet BLUE® complements and helps clarify thoracic radiography and is an easily achievable skill that every veterinarian should know how to perform. Learn it now! https://fastvet.com/learn-vet-blue/

05/21/2026

Answers - When you detect poor volume as shown, what is your next step before volume resuscitation and restoration with crystalloids?


1) You must answer the question: "where is the "leak" in the tank?" In other words, where is the volume loss? Is the poor LV cardiac filling from external losses like gastrointestinal losses, vomiting/diarrhea, or massive external hemorrhage? Is it from internal losses like ascites, retroperitoneal effusion, pleural effusion, within the gastrointestinal tract or uterus that can be detected using AFAST®, part of Global FAST®? Or is the internal hemorrhage from a major long bone or pelvic fracture site?

Clinical signs, physical examination findings, and Global FAST® findings help with answering the mandated question of where is the intravascular loss?

If you stop at the heart, and don't consider where the "leak" in the tank is and load the patient with intravenous fluids not knowing that the patient is hemorrhaging in its abdominal cavity, then hopefully you will figure that out before the patient worsens or even codes, because likely the volume restoration will exacerbate the intraabdominal bleeding.

Are you confident when it comes to evaluating the caudal vena cava (CVC) and hepatic veins on ultrasound?In this importa...
05/21/2026

Are you confident when it comes to evaluating the caudal vena cava (CVC) and hepatic veins on ultrasound?

In this important Webinar Short, we break down practical imaging pearls to help you better characterize and measure the CVC while assessing hepatic vein distention using the “Tree Trunk Sign” — another FASTVet original.

You’ll learn how to quickly eyeball the CVC as “FAT,” “Flat,” or a “Bounce.” Plus, we’ll review key rules of thumb for maximum height measurements of the CVC (and give you opportunities to test your skills along the way).

Whether you’re looking to sharpen your ultrasound interpretation or build more confidence in real-time patient assessment, this webinar delivers practical tips you can apply immediately in practice.

🔗 https://fastvet.com/ettinger-9th-edition-webinar-shorts-04-tfast-and-characterization-of-the-caudal-vena-cava-and-hepatic-veins/

05/20/2026

1) The dog is severely volume contracted showing an "empty" left ventricle (LV) and some have described this as "kissing" LV papillary muscles.

2) The level from which this short axis view was acquired is too low, falsely making the patient look volume depleted with an "empty" LV. We call this the "Batman View" along short axis. Our TFAST® Echocardiography Chart may be found here at this LINK.

https://fastvet.com/fastvet-tfast-echocardiography-chart-printable-version/

To prevent this error, fan dorsal to the "Mercedes Benz Sign" view and then back to the "Mushroom View" hallmarked by its two bright white dots representing the chordae tendinae that attach to the mitral valves. By doing this maneuver, and confirming poor filling, then being too ventral on the heart at the Batman Level is eliminated as an interpretation error.

05/15/2026

The Caudal Vena Cava (CVC) is “FAT”, meaning it’s “fluid intolerant.” The right
heart canNOT handle intravenous fluid therapy as the CVC maximum height
is excessively large with little change from maximum to minimum (

Are you confident when it comes to evaluating the caudal vena cava (CVC) and hepatic veins on ultrasound?In this importa...
05/14/2026

Are you confident when it comes to evaluating the caudal vena cava (CVC) and hepatic veins on ultrasound?

In this important Webinar Short, we break down practical imaging pearls to help you better characterize and measure the CVC while assessing hepatic vein distention using the “Tree Trunk Sign” — another FASTVet original.
You’ll learn how to quickly eyeball the CVC as “FAT,” “Flat,” or a “Bounce.”

Plus, we’ll review key rules of thumb for maximum height measurements of the CVC (and give you opportunities to test your skills along the way).

Whether you’re looking to sharpen your ultrasound interpretation or build more confidence in real-time patient assessment, this webinar delivers practical tips you can apply immediately in practice.

🔗 https://fastvet.com/ettinger-9th-edition-webinar-shorts-04-tfast-and-characterization-of-the-caudal-vena-cava-and-hepatic-veins/

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