Bill Text: CA ACR23 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: AED Awareness Week.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 46-22-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-07-21 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 115, Statutes of 2015. [ACR23 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR23-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 23	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 19, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas
    (   Principal coauthor:   Assembly Member
  Melendez   ) 
    (   Coauthor:  
Assembly Member   Melendez   )


                        FEBRUARY 11, 2015

   Relative to Automated External Defibrillator Awareness Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 23, as amended, Salas. AED Awareness Week.
   This measure would designate the week of  February 22
through 28,   June 1 through June 7,  2015, as
Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Awareness Week in California.

   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, AED is an acronym used as an abbreviation for Automated
External Defibrillator; and
   WHEREAS, AEDs are portable medical devices that use electrodes to
automatically analyze and detect cardiac arrhythmia of sudden cardiac
arrest patients; and
   WHEREAS, AEDs are able to produce a shock that stops the heart and
allows it to return to a normal rhythm, a process called
defibrillation; and
   WHEREAS, AEDs are used in the event of a sudden cardiac arrest,
which is a condition in which the heart suddenly stops pumping blood
and quivers erratically; and
   WHEREAS, About 360,000 cases of sudden cardiac arrest occur
yearly, typically without any warning signs; and
   WHEREAS, More than 7,000 children and young adults experience
sudden cardiac arrest in the United States each year; and 
   WHEREAS, A person currently has about a 5 percent chance of
surviving an incident of cardiac arrest, which decreases by 7 to 10
percent with every minute that passes after a person's heart stops
beating; and  
   WHEREAS, The interval between a 911 call and the arrival of
emergency medical services personnel is typically longer than five
minutes and achieving high survival rates therefore depends on
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED use; and  
   WHEREAS, The window of opportunity for using an AED is very small.
Defibrillation is more successful if performed within five minutes
of the cardiac arrest. Studies show that the chances of survival
decrease 7 to 10 percent with every minute that passes after the
person's heart stops beating; and 
   WHEREAS, Optimal AED placement allows a person to grab the AED and
return to the  victim within 90 seconds;  
victim;  and
   WHEREAS, Given that a person's chances of surviving a sudden
cardiac arrest decrease so rapidly, it is important that Californians
are aware of the importance of AEDs and their life-saving potential;
 now, therefore, be it   and  
   WHEREAS, The American Heart Association, the American Red Cross,
and the National Safety Council prepare related public awareness and
training campaigns on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED use, to
be held during the first week in June of each year; now, therefore,
be it 
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the week of  February 22 through 28,
  June 1 through June 7,  2015, be designated as
Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Awareness Week in California;
and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.