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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

PROCLAIMING JUNE 1-7, 2023, TO BE "NATIONAL CARDIOPULMONARY

RESUSCITATION AND AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR WEEK" IN RHODE

ISLAND

     Introduced By: Senators Paolino, Rogers, E Morgan, DeLuca, Bell, Raptakis, Murray,
Lauria, Quezada, and Tikoian

     Date Introduced: June 08, 2023

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

     WHEREAS, Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for men,

women, and most racial and ethnic groups; and

     WHEREAS, In the United States, a person dies every 33 seconds of a heart attack and

someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds; and

     WHEREAS, Approximately 695,000 people in the United States died in 2021 from heart

disease, which represents one out of every five deaths occurring that year; and

     WHEREAS, Annually, approximately 805,000 people in the United States suffer a heart

attack, with one in five of these incidents being silent heart attacks; and

     WHEREAS, About one in twenty Americans have Coronary Artery Disease; and

     WHEREAS, From 2018 to 2019, heart disease cost the United States approximately

$239.9 billion due to the cost of health care services, medicines, and loss of productivity; and

     WHEREAS, Approximately 70 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in homes;

and

     WHEREAS, In response to the heart disease crisis in the United States, the American

Heart Association, American Red Cross and the National Safety Council worked together to

create National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Awareness

Week, which the United States Congress unanimously passed on December 13, 2007; and

     WHEREAS, The purpose of National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated

External Defibrillator Week is to spotlight that more lives can be saved if more Americans learn

CPR and how to use an AED, better known as a defibrillator. Quite often, the person you save

will be a loved one; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby proclaims June 1 to 7

of 2023, to be "National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator

Week"; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the American Heart Association.

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