HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	204
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018		H.D. 1
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 the curriculum designed pursuant to this measure be implemented as part of the school health or physical education curriculum, which are required courses for graduation from high school; 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.

Report Title:

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