TFAST® was purposely designed with its 5 views by using gravity least-dependent Chest Tube Site (CTS) views bilaterally for pneumothorax (PTX) because PTX can be unilateral. The patient being upright is best because air rises, an important principle to understand that is dependent on patient positioning. Our PTX Webinar (23-minutes) is another supplemental resource for you in our Free Resources and Webinar Shorts for PTX diagnosis, finding the “Lung Point”, and tracking patients by their location of the “Lung Point.”
The gravity-dependent PeriCardial Site (PCS) views are used for fundamental echocardiography from the left and right sides, and their use for PCE and PE because fluid falls into gravity dependent regions we call “pouches.”
Lastly, TFAST® has the Diaphragmatico-Hepatic (DH) View that is used for the “Racetrack Sign” of PCE, PE, lung surface interrogation along its pulmonary-diaphragmatic interface, and volume status via the characterization of the caudal vein cava (CVC) and hepatic veins, and its use for ascites and soft tissue abnormalities of the lever and gallbladder, as well as gastric characterization by rocking causally.
Racetrack Sign” of PCE (PE is different because it can be unilateral or compartmentalized), then don’t fabricate PCE being anywhere else…
Our Updated 2025 PRINTABLE TFAST® Echocardiography Chart here. Like our good friend, Global FAST® Star in Bulgaria, Yovko – he now has the updated version!
For our FASTVet Table for Accurately Detecting PCE and PE in a Printable PDF format, click here.
This is a jpeg cursory incomplete image of the PDF you can download click here.
Our Ettinger published FASTVet Awesome Webinar Shorts that you may watch. These are designed to be brief and generally < 8 minutes.
Webinar Short – TFAST® Rules for Pericardial Effusion (click on the purple part of the image) and below it Pleural Effusion (click on the purple part of the image):
This is another awesome FASTVet Webinar Short and imaging and characterizing the caudal vena cava (FAT, flat and Bounce) and hepatic veins (Tree Trunk Sign) during TFAST® at its Diaphragmatic-Hepatic (DH) view.
We have developed and published (2020) a CVC Chart for Maximum Height expectations at the AFAST®-TFAST® DH View that helps with interpreting CVC size. We call it a Maximum Height because there is no diameter (circle) in the longitudinal plane of the CVC. The LINK to the Blog gives you imaging pearls, the chart and how to measure pointers.
This is another awesome FASTVet Webinar by FASTVet on Pneumothorax (23-minutes).
FASTVet 2020 Webinar Short – TFAST® Diagnosis and Management of Pneumothorax
TFAST® Fundamental Echocardiography – Then the EPIC Guidelines are a game-changer for helping the family dog with mitral valve disease by capturing its left-sided heart enlargement as a Stage B2 and then starting Pimobendan BEFORE failure, delaying the onset of failure 15.4 months! This is HUGE for you to learn our simple system and make part of daily practice – General Practitioners you can do this!
The TFAST® Echo Chart may be printed off and laminated for your practice! We have great more in depth resources for our Members! Join FASTVet!
TFAST® Echocardiography Chart – FASTVet and Our Service Marked Approach
We have been entering our findings on standardized Goal-directed Templates since Day 1 – in 2005 – 21-years ago, so that objectives, findings, and tracking patients is clear to anyone reading the medical record. Get these GDTs here.
FASTVet Free Resource: Most Updated Global FAST® Goal-directed Templates
Send any comments to Dr. Greg Lisciandro, LearnGlobalFAST@gmail.com and become a FASTVet Premium Member to use our many resources. More Free Resources may be found here.
We have Global FAST® Point-of-care Ultrasound RACE-approved 9-hours ALL DAY Hands-on Training in Austin…
…and a similar but Hybrid Global FAST® Point-of-care Ultrasound RACE-approved 11-hours with Online and LIVE in person hands-on training in Nashville, TN…Contact Stephanie for Nashville Course Information at FocusedVet@gmail.com
…as well as travel to your practice and train you on your own equipment as a Hybrid Global FAST® Point-of-care Ultrasound RACE-approved 11-hours Course with Online and LIVE in person hands-on training.
And Online Self-paced RACE-approved CE as AFAST®, TFAST® and Vet BLUE®-Global FAST® Courses that are each 8-hours (for a total of 24-hours RACE-approved CE). More information here.
Updated gl/GL 1-7-2026
