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.
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t Pulse into Practice
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.
Help to achieve this goal by supporting the 'Know Your Pulse' campaign.
A-A provides free materials for Know Your Pulse
Contact joanna@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk now for a campaign pack
Why should you support Know Your Pulse?
The problem…
In the UK:
- More than 2 million people are affected by an arrhythmia
- 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 easiest way to detect an arrhythmia is to feel the pulse
What your help means to us
Your efforts, no matter how big or small, will help to raise public and medical awareness of how a simple pulse check could help save a life.
Get Involved!
Pass the Pulse
Order Pulse Check Guides to share with your friends, colleagues and family
The Pulse Check Guide teaches the reader how to take their pulse, what it means and when they should seek further advice for an irregular heartbeat.
Order from joanna@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk
Put Pulse into Practice
Order a ‘Posters and Leaflets Pack’
Ideal for distributing to local GP surgeries, medical centres, schools, libraries, leisure centres and other community centres.
Order from joanna@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk
Order a ‘Pulse Check Pack’
Hold a Pulse Check Clinic or a community display in your local supermarket, GP surgery, shopping centre or workplace.
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 from joanna@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk
Take Action! Contact your MP and press to raise awareness locally and nationally
Take a few seconds and ‘Email Your MP’ here
Order template mailings from joanna@heartrhythmcharity.org.uk or download a Press Pack here