City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0113R

• File #: 09-0113R
• Version: 0
• Name: Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Government - Automated External Defibrillators
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 2/23/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/11/2010
• Title: Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Government - Automated External Defibrillators FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of Finance, the Baltimore City Health Commissioner, and the Baltimore City Fire Commissioner to report to the City Council on the fiscal efficiency and public health efficacy of placing Automated External Defibrillators in City-owned buildings.
• Sponsors: President Young, Helen L. Holton, Warren Branch, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Rochelle Spector, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, William H. Cole, IV, Belinda Conaway
• Indexes: Defibrillators, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/11/2010	0	City Council	Withdrawn
2/26/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/26/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/26/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/23/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
2/23/2009	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmembers Young, Holton
At the request of: NAACP Baltimore City Branch,
Address: c/o The Honorable Marvin L. ‘Doc’ Cheatham, Sr., 8 West 28th Street, Baltimore,
Maryland, 21218
Telephone: 410-669-8683
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Government - Automated External Defibrillators

FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of Finance, the Baltimore City Health Commissioner, and the Baltimore City Fire Commissioner to report to the City Council on the fiscal efficiency and public health efficacy of placing Automated External Defibrillators in City-owned buildings.
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Automated External Defibrillators or AEDs, commonly called lifesaving devices that treat victims of sudden cardiac arrest, are designed to quickly and easily provide an electric shock that restores the victim’s normal heart rhythm. These portable devices automatically diagnose the potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia in a patient and are able to treat them through the application of electrical therapy that allows the heart to reestablish an effective rhythm.

AEDs are designed to be used by laypersons who ideally should have received AED training; most often they are held by trained personnel who will attend events or are found in public access units, including corporate and government offices, shopping centers, airpor...