Congenital Heart Defects UK | Educating and Raising Awareness of Congenital Heart Defects

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The founder of CHD-UK was born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) that is known as TGA (Transposition of the Great Arteries). Through her own experiences she knows that the need for increased awareness of CHD is essential, which is why CHD-UK was set up: to raise awareness and educate people about this number one birth defect.

Anyone who has or knows someone affected by a CHD is welcome, as is anyone who doesn’t but would like to show their support and/or find out more about this defect. It is not solely for the UK as we would like to help as many people as possible. It affects people all around the world.

Our aims:

To educate and raise awareness of Congenital Heart Defects.
Promote/Campaign for the need for testing prior to birth with the use of (Echocardiograms) and on newborns (neonatal).
Promote/campaign to have all newborns (neonatal) tested for congenital heart defects with the use of pulse oximetry.
Pulse oximetry to become one of the required tests to determine heart problems in newborns (neonatal). There are currently two which obviously do not pick them up because it is normal for neonatals to have murmurs in the first 24 hours whereas a pulse oximetry will determine the amount of oxygen in a neonatal.
To get the media more interested in what it means to be born with a CHD and what the future is like for first generation of survivors.
To get the media to inform the general public correctly about CHDs.
To educate the public the differences between congenital heart defects and coronary heart disease.

Just imagine that you work with people every day and never noticed that they have a heart defect or went through major surgery. You wouldn’t know just by looking at the person. CHD is not visible, our scars are hidden.

This is so that we can continue to keep CHD-UK up and running whilst educating, raising awareness and support for Congenital Heart Defects.

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CHD-UK’s First ever interview.
Interview with TechniCavita