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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES             H.C.R. NO.            H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     HOUSE CONCURRENT
                        RESOLUTION

URGING CPR TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOLS.



 1       WHEREAS, heart disease is the leading cause of deaths in
 2   the United States for adults; and
 3   
 4       WHEREAS, stroke is the third highest cause of deaths and
 5   the leading cause of disability in the United States for
 6   adults; and
 7   
 8       WHEREAS, accidents are the leading cause of deaths for
 9   children between the ages of one and eight-years-of-age, and
10   infants between birth and twelve months of age; and
11   
12       WHEREAS, these deaths occur at any time, without warning,
13   and often in places where qualified medical treatment is not
14   readily accessible; and
15   
16       WHEREAS, saving a person's life often requires quick
17   thinking and life-saving assistance within minutes of an
18   occurrence; and
19   
20       WHEREAS, on Oahu, the survival rate of pre-hospital cardiac
21   arrest patients is only 5 percent, in King County, Washington,
22   where cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training is mandated
23   in high school, the survival rate is 31 percent; and
24   
25       WHEREAS, current resources are insufficient to provide
26   adequate medical treatment to all areas of the State; and
27   
28       WHEREAS, the American Heart Association (AHA) has attempted
29   to improve public awareness through programs such as
30   "Heartsaver ABC" that, among other things, provides
31   informational segments on the "Chain of Survival," heart
32   attack, stroke signs and symptoms, risk factors for heart
33   disease and stroke, and prevention information; and
34   
35       WHEREAS, AHA also provides a CPR Mass Training Awareness
36   Program instructed by CPR Instructors and the Honolulu Fire
37   Department; and

 
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 1   
 2       WHEREAS, the most widespread effort to make more people CPR
 3   conscious has been AHA's pilot testing of a CPR course for high
 4   school and middle school students, referred to as "CPR in
 5   Schools"; and
 6   
 7       WHEREAS, "CPR in Schools" will create a base of CPR
 8   instructors within a designated school and will have these
 9   instructors teach CPR to the students; and
10   
11       WHEREAS, the objectives of "CPR in Schools" is to:
12   
13       (1)  Help save lives through community education of CPR;
14   
15       (2)  Reduce death and disability;
16   
17       (3)  Strengthen the "Chain of Survival" in communities;
18   
19       (4)  Develop a cohesive community program by linking the
20            AHA, Community Training Centers (CTC), schools, and
21            other community organizations together;
22   
23       (5)  Make CPR "serious fun" for kids; and
24   
25       (6)  Develop a program that is easy for teachers to
26            implement and evaluate; 
27   
28   and
29   
30       WHEREAS, a pilot program has been initiated at Hanalani
31   School in Mililani; and
32   
33       WHEREAS, three teachers at the school have completed the
34   instructor training and the first class of fifteen students
35   will have been trained in CPR by March 3, 2000; and
36   
37       WHEREAS, Pearl City High School is in its third year of a
38   program that teaches CPR to the entire freshman class in one
39   day with the Honolulu Fire Department providing on-duty company
40   personnel, training and research bureau personnel, and off-duty
41   Fire Department instructor volunteers; and
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 1       WHEREAS, "CPR in Schools" provides a standardized method
 2   for teaching both adult and pediatric CPR to high school
 3   students and teachers on "pump n' blow and the clearing of
 4   airway obstruction"; and
 5   
 6       WHEREAS, widespread training in CPR has been successfully
 7   implemented in schools across the country and will be
 8   beneficial to the public throughout the State; now, therefore,
 9   
10       BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the
11   Twentieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session
12   of 2000, the Senate concurring, that this body strongly urges
13   the Department of Education (DOE) to establish and implement a
14   "CPR in Schools" program in every public high school; and
15   
16       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all private high schools in
17   this State are encouraged to implement a similar CPR program
18   for their students; and
19   
20       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the DOE is encouraged to
21   investigate the possibility of using qualified volunteers or
22   find alternative sources for funding; and
23   
24       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
25   Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, the
26   Superintendent of Education, the Department of Health, the Fire
27   Departments of each county, the Hawaii Association of
28   Independent Schools, the Hawaii Chapter of the American Heart
29   Association, and the American Lung Association.