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          Date of Hearing:   April 29, 2013

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                  ACR 47 (Skinner) - As Introduced:  April 17, 2013
           
          SUBJECT  :   Commotio Cordis Awareness Week.

           SUMMARY  :   Declares the week of June 1, 2013, to June 7, 2013,  
          as Commotio Cordis Awareness Week and encourages all  
          Californians, particularly young athletes, their families,  
          coaches, school and youth sports league officials, and medical  
          personnel, to learn about the risks of, and treatments for,  
          commotion cordis.  Specifically,  this resolution  makes the  
          following legislative findings:

          1)Commotio cordis is a rare and potentially fatal cardiac  
            arrhythmia that occurs when there is a sudden, often seemingly  
            innocuous, blow to the chest that disrupts the electrical  
            rhythm of an otherwise healthy heart; and, often occurs during  
            sports, when an athlete is at risk of being struck by a firm  
            projectile like a baseball or softball or by an another  
            athlete, as in football or martial arts.

          2)Commotio cordis disproportionately affects children and young  
            adults and is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death among  
            young athletes with the average age of those affected being 16  
            years, and 90 percent of those affected are under 25 years of  
            age.

          3)The risk of commotio cordis can be reduced through simple  
            interventions, including education on avoiding direct blows to  
            the breastbone, improved recognition and prompt resuscitations  
            with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and an automated  
            external defibrillator (AED), and increased availability of  
            AEDs and medical personnel including certified athletic  
            trainers at youth sporting venues.

          4)Using an AED within three minutes of an attack increases the  
            chance of survival to 40 percent whereas if the AED is not  
            used until five or more minutes preceding the attack the  
            chance of survival drops to five percent.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None









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           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800