About the Authors

Yen-Yu Chou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jessica L. Ward

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jward@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Lara Z. Barron

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Royal Veterinary College, North Mymms, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Shane D. Murphy

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Mission Veterinary Emergency and Specialty, Mission, Kansas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Melissa A. Tropf

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Gregory R. Lisciandro

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hill Country Veterinary Specialists, Spicewood, Texas, United States of America

Lingnan Yuan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jonathan P. Mochel

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Teresa C. DeFrancesco

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. Lisciandro is the owner of FASTVet.com, a private corporation that provides veterinary ultrasound training to practicing veterinarians. Ultrasound companies sponsor Global FAST Courses and include Universal Imaging, EI Medical, and Sound; and EI Medical has licensed Global FAST education materials. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.