FASTVet

08/28/2025

🐾✨ Earn 1 hr of RACE-Approved CE!

FASTVet Premium members—join our latest webinar on TFAST® Fundamental Echocardiography. Learn key right & left echo views in standing patients and how to apply them in cases of:

✔️ Chronic valvular disease
✔️ Dilated cardiomyopathy
✔️ Pulmonary hypertension
✔️ Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (in cats)

We’ll also cover:
🔹 EPIC guidelines for early therapy with Pimobendan
🔹 Using fallback views of the caudal vena cava and lung to evaluate heart failure

Sharpen your echo skills, elevate patient care, and earn CE—available now for FASTVet Premium members!

https://fastvet.com/webinar-tfast-fundamental-echocardiography-and-epic-guidelines-overview-you-can-do-this/

Grow your veterinary ultrasound skill set. FASTVet is the Leader in veterinary FAST and point-of-care ultrasound education. Become a member!

08/20/2025

There’s no replacement for hands-on training, but it’s not always feasible to attend out-of-state CE. Luckily, with FASTVet, you don’t have to. Let us travel to your practice and train your staff ✈️

In just the last month, we’ve trained practices in Florida, Iowa, New York, West Virginia, Washington, and Texas. The smiles speak for themselves! The clinics we visit are earning RACE-approved veterinary CE AND learning how to make ultrasound an extension of the physical exam!

Learn more at our website, FASTVet.com

https://fastvet.com/global-fast-course-curriculum-for-hybrid-remote-lectures-hands-on-scanning/

08/18/2025

New Hands-On Global FAST® Point of Care Ultrasound Courses posted at our website! Go to www.FASTVet.com to register and for more information (Go to In Person Learning). Participants receive:

✔️ 9-hours of RACE-approved veterinary CE
✔️ AFAST® , TFAST® and Vet BLUE® manuals
✔️ Global FAST® Certificate of Completion

Global FAST® Courses have limited enrollment to allow for better hands-on learning. Save your spot today! Go to www.FASTVet.com or Email [email protected] for more information.

FASTVet is committed to making veterinary point-of-care ultrasound a simple, practical part of daily patient care. Global FAST® veterinary point-of-care ultrasound combines our AFAST®, TFAST®, and Vet BLUE® into a single ultrasound examination. This new core skill is useful for veterinarians around the world!

08/14/2025

Watch our FREE webinar short on using TFAST® point-of-care ultrasound to distinguish between Pleural and Pericardial Effusion!

Are you confident in your ability to distinguish between pleural and pericardial effusion? In this 6-minute webinar short, Dr. Greg Lisciandro provides essential techniques and pointers for using TFAST® point-of-care ultrasound to do just that.

💻️ After this free webinar, you’ll be able to:

✅ Avoid mistaking a heart chamber for pericardial or pleural effusion
✅ Identify the curtain sign of pleural effusion
✅ Recognize the racetrack sign of pericardial effusion
✅ Understand when radiography IS or IS NOT helpful

Complete with helpful examples and quizzes, this free resource is a must-see for veterinarians using point-of-care ultrasound!

https://fastvet.com/fastvet-2020-webinar-short-pleural-versus-pericardial-effusion-in/

08/04/2025

Come see Dr. Greg Lisciandro at the Jefferson County VMA’s 37th Annual Southern Veterinary Conference in Birmingham! Dr. Lisciandro presents Thursday, August 7th, with topics including:

✔️ Common Artifacts and Imaging Pearls During GlobalFAST®
✔️ AFAST® - Its Target Organ Approach - More than a Flash
✔️ AFAST® and Its Fluid Scoring System for Decision-making
✔️ TFAST® for the Accurate Diagnosis of Pleural and Pericardial Effusion
✔️TFAST® Fundamental Echocardiography & EPIC Guidelines
✔️ Vet BLUE® Lung Ultrasound - A Colossal Change
✔️ Vet BLUE® Lung Ultrasound and Its Signs of Consolidation

This conference offers veterinary professionals an incredible opportunity to make point-of-care ultrasound a useful core skill and an extension of the physical exam. Learn more at thesvconline.com

07/30/2025

Make point-of-care ultrasound an everyday extension of your physical exam! Our newest hybrid course offering teaches veterinary professionals to combine our AFAST®, TFAST®, and Vet BLUE® into a single ultrasound examination: Global FAST®

Learn at your own pace with remote lectures by Dr. Greg Lisciandro and in-person scanning sessions with Dr. Jessica Larson. This course is ideal for flexible learning! Participants in our hybrid course will have access to: ⁠
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✅️ 6 lectures covering AFAST®, TFAST®, Vet BLUE®, and the combined exam, Global FAST®⁠
✅️ 1 hour Global FAST® image acquisition supplemental module⁠
✅️ 4 hour Global FAST® scanning session with Dr. Jessica Larson, DACVIM (SAIM) in Franklin, Tennessee⁠

This is your chance to stand out and grow in your field! Don't miss out on this opportunity to bring advanced ultrasound capabilities to your practice.

https://fastvet.com/new-hybrid-global-fast-ultrasound-course-in-nashville-tennessee-remote-lectures-with-hands-on-scanning-session/

07/24/2025

Every month, our FASTVet Premium Memberships grant you access to exclusive educational webinars!⁠

This month, join us for an in-depth look at how Global FAST® can help you rapidly detect hemoabdomen, hemothorax, hemopericardium, and pneumothorax (PTX) — and how to track and quantify findings using AFAST®, TFAST®, and Vet BLUE®.

Viewers will learn how to:

🔹 Semi-quantitate hemorrhage with AFAST®
🔹 Use TFAST® rules to reduce interpretation errors
🔹 Grade & track PTX with the TFAST® 1/3s Rule
🔹 Detect and score pulmonary contusions with Vet BLUE®

Don’t miss this chance to level up your trauma protocols with point-of-care ultrasound! This webinar is a must watch.

https://fastvet.com/global-fast-for-trauma-hemoabdomen-hemothorax-hemopericardium-pneumothorax-oh-my/

07/17/2025

Free Resource for Veterinary Professionals!

Download the most up-to-date Global FAST® goal-directed templates — designed to help you record point-of-care ultrasound findings consistently and thoroughly.

💡Why it matters: don’t fall into the trap of selective imaging! Just like a full physical exam, Global FAST® should be performed the same way every time to avoid missed diagnoses and improve patient care.

Use our templates to document, track, and elevate your care:
👉 fastvet.com/most-updated-global-fast-goal-directed-templates

07/14/2025

Join Dr. Greg Lisciandro at the 2025 AVMA Convention and 40th World Veterinary Association Congress! Dr. Lisciandro will be giving eight hours of lectures on our combined Global FAST® ultrasound exam and its unique components— AFAST®, TFAST®, and VetBLUE® Lung Ultrasound.

Visit AVMA.org for more information about the session schedule, registration, and what to expect at this year’s convention!

07/02/2025

Curious what other veterinary professionals are saying about Global FAST®? 🩺✨

Don’t just take our word for it—read real testimonials from course participants who have transformed their daily practice with standardized, case-based ultrasound training. From general practice to emergency care, their stories speak volumes.

See how Global FAST® is making an impact: https://fastvet.com/testimonials-from-recent-global-fast-courses/