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The paradigm change of POCUS and FAST rests on expediting the learning process and we hope that this chapter will help accelerate your learning process by highlighting factors in a different way from other chapters in this textbook. The material in the chapter is based on training more than 1000 veterinarians in these techniques over the past 15 years as well as leading in clinical studies.

 Take the time to go through the major knobs on the machine ‐ depth, gain (TGC and overall), focus cursor, frequency, and preset. Know where these buttons are located and play with images to get used to how to efficiently adjust their settings. Using stickers on your machine is another way to train yourself on where these buttons are located.

 Use our algorithm for trouble shooting. By doing so, you will have a way to efficiently review the most common image optimization features of your machine. Depth, frequency, preset, focus cursor, gain (TGC and overall), probe–skin contact, direction of the beam, then default back to original settings.

 Save images and then go through the views and play the artifact game; look through AFAST studies and see how many mirror image artifacts you see and then choose another artifact and do the same.