Learn how to take your pulse. Download resources and watch our instructional video below:

Know Your Pulse Poster	Take the Pulse Check Challenge Poster A4	Take the Pulse Check Challenge - AliveCor A4	What is an arrhythmia?
Take the Pulse Check Challenge/KYP - AliveCor A5	Know Your Pulse Factsheet	Your Heart in Your Hands Checklist	A4 KYP AliveCor Fibricheck Poster
A3 KYP AliveCor Fibricheck Poster	A4 KYP Manual Check Poster	A3 KYP Manual Check Poster	A5 Manual and Mobile Check Poster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facts

Why should you ‘Know Your Pulse’?

• The easiest way to detect an arrhythmia is to feel the pulse to feel your heart rhythm – uneven, too fast, too slow?
• More than three million Britons are affected by an arrhythmia (irregular heart rhythm)
• Heart rhythm disorders are Britain’s biggest killer
• Arrhythmias cause at least 100,000 sudden cardiac deaths each year in the UK; over 250 every day, more deaths than breast cancer, lung cancer and AIDS combined
• Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common arrhythmia, causes 12,000 debilitating and fatal AF-related strokes in the UK each year. Many could be avoided if they are diagnosed and appropriate anticoagulation therapy is prescribed.
• At the age of 40, we all have a 25% life-time risk of developing AF which increases the risk of stroke 500%
• 120,000 people experience unexplained loss of consciousness each year, commonly a sign of a heart rhythm disorder
• 39% of children and 30% of adults diagnosed with epilepsy are mis-diagnosed, and many have an underlying, potentially fatal, arrhythmia
• There is currently no national programme of pulse checks or heart rhythm screening