Full Text of HR0510 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Each year sudden cardiac arrest claims the lives | 3 | | of more than 300,000 Americans outside of the hospital; it | 4 | | strikes people of all levels of fitness, and it usually strikes | 5 | | without warning; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, In many cases, sudden cardiac arrest is caused by | 7 | | an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation that | 8 | | prevents the heart from pumping blood; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, The treatment for ventricular fibrillation is | 10 | | defibrillation, which is the delivery of an electric shock to | 11 | | the heart that stops ventricular fibrillation and allows a | 12 | | normal heart rhythm to resume; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Providing defibrillation on-site with an | 14 | | Automated External Defibrillator (AED) can significantly | 15 | | increase survival rates for ventricular fibrillation cardiac | 16 | | arrest; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, HSHS St. John's Hospital and its volunteers have | 18 | | assisted in the continuation of AED programs at the Illinois | 19 | | House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate by providing | 20 | | life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and AED | 21 | | training for General Assembly employees on June 13, 2019; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, HSHS St. John's Hospital volunteer instructors | 2 | | and staff for the 2019 General Assembly employee training | 3 | | session were De Barber, Sherry Day, Tara Fadden, Oran Friend, | 4 | | Scott Gaddy, James Geiselman, Mary Georgene Jones, Dorothy | 5 | | Kane, Amanda Peabody, Theresa Shuey, Jean Skube, and Dawn | 6 | | Winebright; therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 8 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 9 | | we commend HSHS St. John's Hospital for its efforts to save | 10 | | lives through education and training, and we thank the | 11 | | volunteer instructors for providing CPR and AED training for | 12 | | General Assembly employees; and be it further
| 13 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 14 | | presented to HSHS St. John's Hospital and the volunteer | 15 | | instructors as an expression of our gratitude for their role in | 16 | | providing heart-health education and life-saving training.
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