Help Save Hearts, Oklahoma!

Every year 100,000 deaths from cardiac arrest across the country could be prevented if Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) were available. Tomorrow, a bill will be voted on that will increase the use of AEDs in Oklahoma.

Click here to tell your House and Senate member to vote YES on the Good Samaritan Law which will encourage all citizens to use an AED by providing them immunity from lawsuits.

The Oklahoma Senate is expected to vote on this proposal tomorrow, so please make your voice heard and take action today!

AEDs are important for several reasons including:

• If an AED is used within three minutes of a heart attack the victim has an 80 percent chance of survival.
• Every minute that passes before returning the heart to a normal rhythm after a cardiac arrest causes the chance of survival to fall by 10 percent.
• Each year, more than 250,000 people suffer cardiac arrest, usually away from a hospital. More than 95 percent of them will die, in many cases because defibrillation occurs too late to reverse the cardiac arrest.
  

After the Senate votes on the bill, it will go to the House. Please urge both your State Representative and State Senator to vote YES on this lifesaving bill. Take action today!