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Think HEART campaign for early diagnosis of heart conditions

Children's Heart Federation Think HEART campaign for early diagnosis of heart conditions. 

The Children's Heart Federation is launching a new national information campaign directed towards parents and medical professionals. The Think HEART campaign aims to empower and inform parents, as well as better educate medical professionals about the key early signs of a possible heart problem in children. 

Think HEART provides parents with five easy to spot signs to help identify if their child may have a heart problem. It also gives them the confidence to raise the issue with their doctor or a health professional. 

The Think HEART acronym has five easy to remember steps for parents to identify a heart problem: 

  • H – Heart Rate (Is their heart rate too fast or too slow. Normal rate is between 100 to 160 beats per minute)
  • E – Energy (Are they sleepy, quiet and too tired to feed) 
  • A – Appearance (Is your baby a pale, waxy, dusky, blue or grey colour) 
  • R – Respiration (Are they breathing too fast or too slow. Normal rate is between 40 to 60 breaths per minute) 
  • T – Temperature (Are they cold to touch – particularly their hands and feet)
    Heart problems go undiagnosed in far too many children and Think HEART will increase early diagnosis and help to save children's lives.

Can you help us?  

We need your help to raise awareness of congenital heart problems and to help increase early diagnosis.

You can help us simply by talking to family members, friends and colleagues about the campaign and asking them to get involved too. 

You can also help spread the message to other parents by putting up posters at key places in your local community such as at community centres, Sure Start centres, GPs surgeries, playgroups and primary schools or wherever parents might go and meet.

Download a copy of the Think HEART poster here https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxDDaen5r3MeMjRHel92TWp4SGc

If you can help with the campaign and you'd like us to send you a campaign pack with posters and flyers please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. call 0207 422 0630 or visit www.chfed.org.uk/thinkheart

Danny Beales

Policy and Communications Manager

Children's Heart Federation

Tel: 020 7422 0630

Mobile: 07791 254 187

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Web: www.chfed.org.uk

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