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A tear in the wall of the aorta kills by the hour, and the only thing that reliably finds it is a CT angiogram. It is famously missed at first presentation, because the pain can look like a heart attack, a kidney stone or a stroke, and the scan that would settle it is often ordered late. So the interesting question is not whether CT works. It is where the time goes. Between a patient arriving and a scan being reported there are several clocks running: arrival to the first imaging request, request to scan, scan to report. Studies rarely report the same one, which makes the delays hard to compare and much harder to fix. This project collects those studies and sets the intervals against what actually happened to the patients, including whether the diagnosis was missed at the first presentation and how long it took to reach theatre. The reading starts from a list already built.
Read up on acute aortic syndrome and how emergency imaging pathways are timed. Take one section, read the papers gathered for it, build its table, and write that section of the review.
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