{"title":"A bite and a bike: Clinical manifestations of a snakebite in west Africa","authors":"Alexis Maroney , Rachael Chaska , Jason Folt","doi":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102374","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37961,"journal":{"name":"Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145109286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wan Mohd Nazaruddin Wan Hassan , Laila Ab Mukmin , Mohamad Hasyizan Hassan
{"title":"Intraoperative seizure captured with Density Spectral Array of processed electroencephalogram","authors":"Wan Mohd Nazaruddin Wan Hassan , Laila Ab Mukmin , Mohamad Hasyizan Hassan","doi":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102373","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37961,"journal":{"name":"Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Massimo F Riitano , Vivian Levy-Toledano , Franz Mendoza-Garcia
{"title":"Don’t get it twisted: POCUS diagnosis of acute appendicitis complicated by malrotation","authors":"Massimo F Riitano , Vivian Levy-Toledano , Franz Mendoza-Garcia","doi":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Acute appendicitis is commonly diagnosed using clinical risk stratification tools, with point of care ultrasound (POCUS) playing a key role in timely and accurate diagnosis. We present a case of a 7-year-old female with right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain and vomiting, who was afebrile with a positive McBurney’s sign and voluntary guarding. Laboratory results showed leukocytosis with neutrophilia and negative inflammatory markers. POCUS revealed a blind-ending, non-compressible, aperistaltic tubular structure measuring 1.35 cm, but it could not be traced back to the cecum. Computed tomography (CT) imaging confirmed acute appendicitis and revealed an abnormal superior mesenteric vein (SMV) - superior mesenteric artery (SMA) relationship consistent with midgut malrotation without volvulus. This case highlights the importance of recognizing anatomic anomalies during POCUS to avoid misdiagnoses in atypical presentations of appendicitis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37961,"journal":{"name":"Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145105486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Point of care ultrasound for traumatic pseudoaneurysm","authors":"Michelle Ji, Kristen Kobayashi, Amy Sanghvi","doi":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102358","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37961,"journal":{"name":"Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zineb Izi, Tlaite Oubaddi, Omar El Aoufir, Laila Jroundi
{"title":"Recognizing the fat notch sign in bowel obstruction: a key to early diagnosis in emergency radiology","authors":"Zineb Izi, Tlaite Oubaddi, Omar El Aoufir, Laila Jroundi","doi":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37961,"journal":{"name":"Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144989000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When nature crawls in: A rare encounter with Asian hornet in the nasal cavity","authors":"Amir Farhan Amir, Norasnieda Md Shukri","doi":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102368","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visj.2025.102368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37961,"journal":{"name":"Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 102368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144903740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}