Second Regular Session
              Sixty-fourth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
 
 LLS NO. R04-1225.01 Emily Hager                 HJR04-1090
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Spradley, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Hagedorn, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                  HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 04-1090 
       Concerning commending the automated external
            defibrillator donation partnership between the
            American Heart Association and Kaiser Permanente.
       
       
            WHEREAS, As a result of technological advances, there is now
       a portable lifesaving device, called an Automated External Defibrillator
       (AED), which can be used when a person suffers from sudden cardiac
       arrest; and
       
            WHEREAS, An AED employs built-in computers to assess the
       patient's heart rhythm, judge whether defibrillation is needed, and then
       administer the shock so that trained, nonmedical personnel such as police,
       firefighters, flight attendants, and security guards can use AEDs to treat
       a person in cardiac arrest; and
       
            WHEREAS, People who survive sudden cardiac arrest have a very
       good chance of long-term survival, with approximately 83% living at
       least one year and 57% living for 5 years or more after initial recovery;
       and
       
            WHEREAS, Public access to defibrillation requires increasing
       availability of AEDs available in public and private places where large
       numbers of people gather or where a large percentage of residents are at
       high risk for heart attacks; and
       
            WHEREAS, Early defibrillation, provided within the first minute
       of a cardiac arrest, could potentially save 645 victims of sudden cardiac
       arrest in this state per year; now, therefore,
       
            Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-fourth
       General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring
       herein:
       
            That we, the members of the Colorado General Assembly,
       recognize and commend the partnership formed by the American Heart
       Association and Kaiser Permanente, which resulted in the donation of: 8
       AEDs to Denver International Airport; 45 AEDs to the Metro Denver fire
       departments; 3 AEDs to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts; 2
       AEDs to the Colorado State Capitol; 1 AED to the Colorado History
       Museum; 1 AED to the North Central Fire Protection District; and future
       donations to the Colorado Department of Transportation's Training
       Center as well as the Colorado Convention Center.
       
            Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be
       sent to the American Heart Association, Denver branch office; and Chris
       Binkley, President of Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Colorado Region.