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.