BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
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23 (Salas)
As Amended May 28, 2015
Majority vote
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|Committee |Votes |Ayes |Noes |
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|Rules |11-0 |Gordon, Chang, | |
| | |Burke, Campos, | |
| | |Cooley, Dodd, | |
| | |Jones, Mayes, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Waldron, | |
| | |Wood | |
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SUMMARY: Designates the week of June 1, 2015, through June 7,
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
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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% 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.
Analysis Prepared by:
Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 FN: 0000538