By james art 
A bill that seeks to improve the readiness for heartfelt emergencies in public schools to help save the life of students in Florida is now ready for the floor of the house.
Hialeah Republican representative. Alex Rizo and a Republican representative of Clermont. Taylor bright present the measure (HB 1607) to the undercommate for the administration of education at the home at the final stop of the Committee. The panel unanimously approved it.
Prior to presenting the bill, the brightness described in detail some of the statistics on cardiac arrests in schools and shockingly low survival if an automated external defibrillator (AED) is not reached within minutes of a cardiac event.
“Before I tell you what we are doing in this bill, I want to give you all the statistics to think about,” he said. “The sudden cardiac arrest is the No. 1 killer in school campuses. Approximately four of the young people of our school age die every day of a sudden cardiac arrest, it is about 1500 students each year. The current percentage of survival when it happens is 9%; it can happen.”
The brightness continued to note that statistics show that there are an increasingly large number of students in Florida who are at risk of having a heart attack.
“Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of the athletes’ death, but this is also the common leading cause of death in school campuses, as I said,” explained the vivid.
“And what is even more care and ticking time bomb, if you wish, is that approximately 1 in every 300 students, who is over 15,000 children in our country at the moment, have undiagnosed heart disease. So, we know that something is likely to happen to those students who are involved in this.”
Explaining the bill, the brightness said that AED would have to be available in all schools in Florida.
” # 1, we will require all public schools, including charter schools, must have at least one school -based AED operating.
“And I will say that we already need this at the Athletic Association of the Florida High School. But this will not make you consider if you have one, say in high school or … a weight room. It should be in a common area of the school.”
The bill would further impose CPR or AED training, as well as create a new plan called the Emergency Life -Rescue Emergency Plan (PULSE). Thehe State Education Council It will also be given to the powers to accept rules and to comply with the requirements.
“People, this is a strength bill,” Meruski said.
“If I told you that four children die every day in fires in our schools, I think we would close the state, we would be in a special session and find out how we equip our schools with sprinklers, fire extinguishers. Therefore, no one died at school, as probably around the 60s in Florida there.”
In conclusion, Rizo said he was working on such legislation three years ago and noted that if the legislation becomes a law, Florida would be the first country in the United States to implement such a policy.
“Speaking to the American Cardiac Association, we started talking about a three -minute window to really save lives,” Riso said. “Three minutes from the time of cardiac arrest, the onset of one, this is the magic window. The interesting thing is that there is no condition, at least as far as I know there is a plan. So, this is an incredible bill.”
Rizo also said that the cost of installing AED in each school would be insignificant.
“We have invented our own research,” Rizo said. “We can put at least one AED in any school in Florida for less than the price of a school lunch per child. It’s under one dollar. Is it worth saving your child’s life? Is this expensive? I think it’s immeasurable.”