BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
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23 (Salas)
As Amended February 19, 2015
Majority vote
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|Committee |Votes |Ayes |Noes |
|----------------+------+--------------------+--------------------|
|Rules |11-0 |Gordon, Chang, | |
| | |Burke, Campos, | |
| | |Cooley, Dodd, | |
| | |Jones, Mayes, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Waldron, | |
| | |Wood | |
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SUMMARY: Designates the week of February 22 through February
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
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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% 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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Analysis Prepared by: Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916)
319-2800 FN: 0000038