Aortic Dissection Awareness Day - 8 Mythbusters

🚨 September is #AorticDiseaseAwarenessMonth and today is #AorticDissectionAwarenessDay 🚨

This year, the life-saving #𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔 campaign is tackling dangerous misconceptions with a brand-new downloadable resource:

“𝘽𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙! 8 𝙈𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙨 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝘼𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝘼𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.”

💡 Frontline clinicians—paramedics, ED teams, radiologists, and acute care providers—how many of these would you bet your clinical reputation on?

👉🏻“Acute Aortic Dissection is extremely rare.”

👉🏻“Patients always present with ripping chest pain.”

👉🏻“It only happens in people over 65.”

👉🏻“Even if you diagnose it, outcomes are poor.”

❌ Wrong. These myths cost lives.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵:

✅ Aortic dissection can strike younger adults, pregnant women, and patients with inherited aortic conditions.

✅ Pain isn’t always “ripping or tearing”—it may be transient, migratory, or fade after onset.

✅ Outcomes can be good: early diagnosis and timely intervention save lives. Survivors around the world are proof.

Despite advances in imaging and treatment, 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝟰𝟬% 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻—𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

🔗 Download the new 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 today and help cut through the myths that cost lives.

https://aorticdissectionawareness.org/uploads/Mythbuster_FINAL.pdf?v=1756814707

Together, let’s improve patient safety and change outcomes #ASAP because Awareness Saves Aortas Period. 💙