HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	204
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

REQUESTING that THE department OF EDUCATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT A CURRICULUM IN HAWAII PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT TEACHES STUDENTS TO PERFORM CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AND TO IDENTIFY SYMPTOMS OF A STROKE.

WHEREAS, of the four hundred thousand people who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States each year, only six percent survive the episode; and

WHEREAS, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in Hawaii; and

WHEREAS, every year, Hawaii emergency medical services teams treat nearly one thousand one hundred cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, with only nine percent of these victims surviving; and

WHEREAS, the American Heart Association's cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines state that in studies of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, adults who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a bystander were more likely to survive than those who did not receive any type of cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and

WHEREAS, cities that have increased training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation have seen cardiac arrest survival rates reach up to sixty percent; and

WHEREAS, thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation training as a high school graduation requirement and at least seventy-five percent of public high school students in the United States that are graduating this year will have learned lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation in their schools; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Education has purchased cardiopulmonary resuscitation mannequins and training materials for use by high school health class instructors; and

WHEREAS, seventy percent of Hawaii residents feel helpless to act during a cardiac arrest emergency because they do not know how to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and

WHEREAS, cardiopulmonary resuscitation training can be completed in a single thirty-minute session; and

WHEREAS, strokes are the fifth-leading cause of death in the United States and a major cause of severe, lifelong disability; and

WHEREAS, strokes account for one out of every twenty deaths in the United States each year; and

WHEREAS, someone in the United States dies from a stroke every four minutes; and

WHEREAS, learning the warning signs of a stroke is essential to minimizing the consequences of this potentially life-threatening event; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2018, that the Department of Education is requested to design and implement a curriculum in Hawaii public schools that teaches students to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and to identify symptoms of a stroke; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Education.

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Cardiac Arrest; Strokes; Board of Education; Curriculum