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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS E...,
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FROM: SUPERVISOR GAYLE B. UILKEMA �� Contra
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DATE: December 9 2003
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SUBJECT: Police Cars equipped with Defibrillators
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SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Refer the matter of equipping police cars with defibrillators to Internal Operations Committee. 1.0.will gather data,hold
hearings,and evaluate the issues, including the cost of implementing the proposal.
BACKGROUND:
In many instances,police officers arrive at the scene of an accident first. Lives may be saved if officers had defibrillation
equipment to be used prior to the arrival of paramedics.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE: GAYLE B.UILKEMA '
ACTION OF BOARD ON 'L. �c ..' APPROVED
- AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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HEALTH SCIENCE t� �- �. � E ,
Public...acc,ess 1in
Use doubles survival Commonwealth University i
Richmond presented the resul
rate research finds .... A Tuesday at a meeting of the Arne
Rican Heart Association in Orland
By Daniel Q.Homey 011ie bottom line we belie
AsSOC[ATED PRESS defibrillators in public facilitis
will double surviv4 if there au
ORi.��Do,Fla.—The first ma- trained teams to use them," t
jor test of public-access def ibrilla- said.
tors found that planing the devices :;: - They also tumed out to be e
in office buildings and shopping � ° ' X' Y
::,. tremely safe when used this wa
malls and braining ordinary people `a'F .: `:_ .�... Tie devices can detect whethc
to use them can double the chanc- x someone truly is in cardiac aures
es of su3viving cardiac arrest In the study,they did not delivt
Defibrillators already have be- any unnecemry shoclm
come standard equipment, like Epidemiologist Clay Mann c
hire nguishers, in many air- _ -.` the University of Utah,who beat
ports, convention centers and CHARLES BENNeTT/Ammiuted Pms J"9 ed the project in his state,said th
health clubs.And although earlier Oicage Special Aviation Polan Lime Janda displays a devices seemed to be most usef.
studies suggest they are safe,there heart defibrillator placed at Chicagds C'Hare Airport iu 1999. in shopping centers,fitness cluf
has been no clear proof until now and recreation areas where elderl
they actually increase survival. people often congregate.
Each year,about 250,000 Amer- ute spent waiting for a paramedic buildings% factories, apartment Most victims in the study wer
icans die from cardiac west, lowers the chance of survival by 10 buildings, transit centers and in their 60s and los..One disaf
which can result from heart at. percent schools in 24 cities.About 20,000 pointment was that while 15 pei
tacks,underlying heart disease or The latest study was intended to volunteers who worked at these cent of the defibrillators wer
accidents, among other causes. see whether putting automated de- sites took part.Half were taught to placed in central locations v
While most such deaths happen in fibrillatory about the size of laptop do CPR only.The rest were also apartment buildings and pte
the home,roughly 20 percent oc- computers into the hands of ordi- shown how to work defibrillators. communities, they were used is
cur in public places, and 95 per- nary volunteers increases the After almost two years, there just one resuscitation attempt i
cent of vict i rns die even before chances of saving these people were 292 attempted resuscitations new federally funded study involy
reaching the hospitaL while the ambulance is on the way. and 44 survivors--29 tl=ks to the ing 7,004 people is teen whethe
Paramedics can shock victims' About 17500 defZbrWators were volunteers with defibrillators,and providing the devioes to families c
hearts back to a normal beat with distributed to 993 sports facilities, 15 among those who did CPR heart attack patients will improv+
defibrillators,but paramedics rare- shopping centers, entertainment alone. the chances of surviving cardia"
ly arrive in time.In fact,every min- venues,community centers,office Dr. Joseph Ornato of Virginia arrest in the home.
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