Know Your Pulse
Join the ‘Know Your Pulse’ campaign
The ‘Know Your Pulse’ campaign is brought to you by Arrhythmia Alliance (A-A), a coalition of patients, carers, medical professionals and allied professionals. These groups remain independent, however, work together under the A-A umbrella to promote timely and effective diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias.
A-A is promoting routine pulse checks when someone visits their GP surgery so that more people will be diagnosed and treated for cardiac arrhythmias.
You can help to achieve this goal by supporting the 'Know Your Pulse' campaign.
Why should you support ‘Know Your Pulse’?
The problem…
In the UK:
- More than 2 million people have an arrhythmia (diagnosed and undiagnosed).
- 120,000 people experience unexplained loss of consciousness each year.
- 100,000 sudden cardiac deaths each year; the equivalent of 250 people each day. Sudden cardiac death leads to more deaths worldwide than breast cancer, lung cancer and AIDS combined.
- 30 per cent of adults and 39 per cent of children are misdiagnosed with epilepsy when in fact they have a heart rhythm disorder.
- The pulse is the easiest way to detect an arrhythmia.
What your help means to us.
We believe that your efforts, no matter how big or small, will help to raise public and medical awareness of cardiac arrhythmias.
What you can do…
Pulse Check Cards – For individuals, friends and family. The Pulse Check Card is a public self-educational tool that teaches the reader how to take their pulse, what it means and when they should seek further advice for an irregular heartbeat.
Order Pulse Check Cards from joanna@heartrhyhmcharity.org.uk
Posters and Leaflets Pack
Ideal for distributing information and promotional items to local GP surgeries, medical centres, schools, libraries, leisure centres and other community centres.
Order your Posters and Leaflets Pack from joanna@heartrhyhmcharity.org.uk
Pulse Check Pack
With a selection of information and promotional items, this pack is ideal for teaching people how to take their pulse or for holding a display stand at your local hospital, shopping centre, GP surgery or community centre.
Order your Pulse Check Pack from joanna@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk
Arrhythmia Alliance can provide FREE, Department of Health endorsed educational literature and promotional materials that you can use in support of the ‘Know Your Pulse’ campaign.