Emergency wallet card for heart attacks and strokes

Do you know how to react if someone you know is having a stroke or heart attack?

With this emergency wallet card, you can always be prepared when you need to know the warning signs and signals and take action right away. When you do, you can help save a life – maybe your own or your loved one’s. 

Thousands of Canadians die from heart attacks every year because they don’t get medical treatment quickly enough. 

And only 20% to 25% of those who have a stroke actually get emergency care and treatment within three hours of the onset of symptoms – the critical timeframe during which treatment is most effective. 

Keep this emergency wallet card with you at all times. It may help save a life.

Click here to download the emergency wallet card (PDF, 65 KB)

Call 1-888-HSF-INFO (1-888-473-4636) for a free copy of this publication. You may also ask for health information on healthy living, stroke and heart disease, or how you can offer support in your community.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation thanks Boehringer Ingelheim for providing the funds to make the development of this resource possible.

This emergency wallet card has been independently researched, written and reviewed by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and is based on scientific evidence. Acceptance of financial support by the Heart and Stroke Foundation does not constitute an endorsement.

Last reviewed: June 2008