Fatima Ahmed

Day 1 of F3 testing kicked off the 2023 pre-season. A familiar name topped the charts on Tuesday, as 17 rookies made their debut.

Rodin Carlin has announced its second driver for the F1 Academy with former W Series driver Abbi Pulling joining the series.

With ten rookies on the 2023 Formula 2 grid, the Anthoine Hubert award is anyone's guess as we take a look at who's in contention.

British-based Virtuosi Racing has announced the team will be rebranded as Invicta Virtuosi Racing from 2023 onwards.

Campos Racing has announced its second driver for the inaugural 2023 F1 Academy season as Lola Lovinfosse joins them.

The 2023 Formula 2 season is finally underway with a mixed grid of rookies and veterans. Let's see how will the weekend unfold.

Campos Racing has announced its third and final driver for the 2023 F1 Academy season with the addition of Uruguayan driver Maite Caceres.

With the Formula One Academy season weeks away, there is still some confusion over how the series is different from W Series. Let's analyze.

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a significant cause of death. The chance of survival significantly increases when immediate defibrillation with an on-site automated external defibrillator (AED) is available. Our aim is to systematically evaluate the impact of public access defibrillators (PAD) on the outcomes of outpatient cardiac arrest. We conducted a systematic review of the data from global studies on the role of bystander and emergency medical service (EMS) interventions, primarily focusing on the usage of AEDs, during OHCA events. The results highlight the critical significance of PADs in improving survival outcomes in OHCA settings. The majority of OHCA incidents occurred in private residences, but public spaces such as schools and airports had better outcomes, likely due to AED accessibility and trained individuals. Placing AEDs in public areas, especially high-risk zones, can boost survival chances. Timely defibrillation, particularly by bystanders, correlated with better survival and neurological conditions. The review emphasizes the importance of widespread cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and AED training, strategic AED placement, and continuous monitoring of interventions and outcomes to enhance survival rates and neurological recovery after OHCAs. This systematic review showed that bystander interventions, including CPR and AED usage, significantly increased the survival rate. Overall, immediate response and accessibility to AEDs in public areas can significantly improve outcomes in OHCA events.

Being an uncommon and challenging disorder, acute aortic dissection (AAD) can have fatal outcomes in the event of missed diagnosis or treatment delay. AAD could easily be misdiagnosed, as symptoms usually mimic other common clinical syndromes showing up in Accident and Emergency (A&E), including acute coronary syndrome (ACS), pericarditis, pulmonary embolism, acute abdomen, musculoskeletal pain, as well as presenting as heart failure, stroke, syncope, and absent peripheral pulses.We present a case of a 77-year-old female who presented to the medical decision unit with acute-onset chest, back, and abdominal pain that occurred on standing for six hours She was thought initially to have acute coronary syndrome based on electrocardiography (ECG) changes, troponin, a normal chest X-ray, and no blood pressure discrepancies in upper extremities. Due to worsening abdominal pain and a previous history of a perforated diverticulum, contrast computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen was arranged and this showed acute type B aortic dissection. By the time the CT was performed, the patient had been in hospital for 16 hours, almost 22 hours from the onset of pain.