A-A Patient Meetings
A-A Patient Meetings aim to bring together patients, carers and medical professionals to learn from each other and share experiences of living with cardiac arrhythmias.
A-A Patients Day at The Heart Rhythm Congress 2010
Sunday 3rd October 2010
Hilton Metropole, Birmingham
Learn I Question I Talk I Meet
The day focuses on arrhythmia patients and living with their implantable device. Some of the topics which are covered include: Remote monitoring for ICDs: will this improve my care?, Heart Rhythm drugs: are they any good? and Anxiety Management.
There will also be the chance for you to Ask the Experts where leading electrophysiologist, Dr Kim Rajappan from Oxford John Radcliffe will be ready to answer your questions. If you would like to submit your questions to A-A prior to the meeting, please email caroline@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk.
To view the agenda for A-A Patients Day click here
Registration
Register NOW to secure your place. A-A is able to offer subsidised rates of £25 per delegate to all A-A patient and carer members registering directly through A-A – a discount of 50%. Cost to non-members £50.00 pp
Email: caroline@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk to register your interest.
Please send cheques made payable to A-A (your name and HRC 2010 written on the back) to:
Arrhythmia Alliance
PO Box 3697
Stratford upon Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 8YL
UK
Accommodation
For online booking at the Hilton Metropole Hotel Birmingham click here
Alternatively, reduced rates for accommodation near to the Hilton Metropole have been agreed at the Premier Inn, Birmingham NEC.
A rate of £72.00 per room will be available to anyone booking before 1st September and quoting HRC. After this date higher rates will apply.
Breakfast is not included but is offered at ‘all you can eat' for £7.95 or a 'Meal Deal' which covers a two course evening meal with a drink from the bar and breakfast for £20.00 per person.
To contact Premier Inn directly to reserve your accommodation, please telephone: 0121 7676800
Also, there are reduced rates avaliable at the Holiday Inn - Birmingham Airport.
Double or twin rooms are £80.00 B&B per room. Single rooms are available and superior rooms which have sofa beds are £85.00 B&B per night. Rooms will be held until 1st September when quoting HRC.
Please note A-A are unable to book accommodation for members.
A-A Patients Day at The Heart Rhythm Congress 2009
Last year's A -A Patients Day was held on Sunday 18th October at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel. Patient members came together to listen to a wide range of presentations and browse the first dedicated Patient Exhibition at HRC. Both Atrial Fibrillation Association (AFA) - www.atrialfibrillation.org.uk and the Syncope Trust And Reflex anoxic Seizures (STARS) - www.stars.org.uk held Patient Day meetings at the same event, so once registered, delegates could select from more than twenty presentations during the day!
Many A-A presentations from the day have kindly been permitted to be included on the A-A website by the individual presenters. Please click on the following links to read notes and view slides of the day.
| 1. The Patient Day Agenda – Sunday October 18th 2009 at the Heart Rhythm Congress | |
| 2. Living with an arrhythmia – A Patient’s account – S Gurnett |  |
| 3. The athlete's heart and arrhythmias - good, bad or does it exist? - A Wolff |  |
| 4. Psychological aspects of cardiac devices - R Parke |  |
| 5. Living with my ICD - A patient's perspective - S Shunmoogum |  |
| 6. Support with your ICD - The arrhythmia nurse - J Tagney |  |
| 7. Exercise with a cardiac condition – P Doherty |  |