Aortic Dissection Awareness.

Do you know much about aortic dissection awareness? Yeah, so as I was talking about earlier on, aortic dissection can mimic other conditions. And there have been several relatively high profile cases of younger people presenting with the symptoms of a dissection in whom the pieces haven't quite been put together in the right way. and that's meant that the diagnosis has not been gotten to quickly enough or at all. So Dissection Awareness is a campaign which has focused on trying to increase awareness of aortic dissection as a problem, I guess both for patients who probably don't know about it most of the time and also doctors, especially those on the front line, for example A&E doctors. So it's a kind of campaign which uses the catchphrase think aorta and it's aimed at trying to catch these perhaps unusual presentations of dissection just because it is a treatable condition caught early enough but if it's left and it's a complicated dissection then the outcomes will generally be poor. So it's a kind of national campaign run jointly by various societies and also by patients which is aimed at picking up diagnoses of dissection which otherwise would have been missed.