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          Date of Hearing:  February 23, 2015


                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES


                                    Gordon, Chair


          ACR  
                      23 (Salas) - As Amended  February 19, 2015


          SUBJECT:  AED Awareness Week.


          SUMMARY:  Designates the week of February 22 through 28, 2015,  
          as Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Awareness Week in  
          California.  Specifically, this resolution:  makes the following  
          legislative findings: 


          1)AED's are portable medical devices that use electrodes to  
            automatically analyze and detect cardiac arrhythmia of sudden  
            cardiac arrest patients and are able to produce a shock that  
            stops the heart and allows it to return to a normal rhythm, a  
            process called defibrillation.



          2)Sudden cardiac arrest, which is a condition in which the heart  
            suddenly stops pumping blood and quivers erratically, occurs  
            in about 360,000 people yearly, of those cases, more than  
            7,000 are children, typically without warning signs.
          3)A person's survival rate decreases by 7 to 10 percent for  
            every minute that passes after their heart stops beating, so  
            optimal AED placement allows a person to grab the AED and  
            return to the victim within 90 seconds.


          FISCAL EFFECT:  None









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          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:


          Support


          None on file


          Opposition
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          Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800