2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 25 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT (§§ 25-1-101 — 25-59-106) › HEALTH CARE (§§ 25-21-101 — 25-59-106) › Article 53 - AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS (§§ 25-53-101 — 25-53-202) › Part 2 - SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST MANAGEMENT (§§ 25-53-201 — 25-53-202) › Section 25-53-202 - Office of cardiac arrest management - creation - duties - appropriation - gifts, grants, and donations - rules

(1)
There is hereby created in the department the office of cardiac arrest management. The purpose of the office is to:
(a)
Promote the use of public access defibrillators and the use of registries to let the public know where a public access defibrillator can be found and used when an individual is suffering from sudden cardiac arrest; and
(b)
Coordinate the collection of sudden cardiac arrest data from hospitals and emergency medical services.
(2)
The office shall:
(a)
Coordinate the collection of sudden cardiac arrest data into a data analysis system specified by the department, including outcome data from hospitals that receive cardiac patients transported by emergency medical services;
(b)
Implement an outreach campaign to:
(I)
Raise awareness regarding sudden cardiac arrest and the skills necessary to save lives, including the importance of compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
(II)
Raise awareness regarding the use of public access defibrillators;
(III)
Demonstrate how to call for help and emergency medical services; and
(IV)
Encourage all residents of Colorado to engage in basic life-saving actions;
(c)
Maintain a list of training and education programs offered in the state that:
(I)
Teach life-saving skills, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of a defibrillator; and
(II)
Comply with the guidelines published by the American Heart Association;
(d)
Employ a statewide cardiac arrest data coordinator and other personnel as necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section; and
(e)
Coordinate the submission of data, including the global positioning system location of public access defibrillators, to an automated external defibrillator registry designated by the department.
(3)
The office may:
(a)
Acquire, analyze, and oversee cardiac arrest data;
(b)
Release reports generated from the data; and
(c)
Share the data with:
(I)
Emergency medical services providers, dispatch centers, hospitals, and other entities as appropriate to assist with emergency response capabilities;
(II)
Appropriate entities as requested for research purposes;
(III)
Designated state and national cardiac arrest registries; and
(IV)
Designated state and national automated external defibrillator registries.
(4)
(a)
For state fiscal year 2022-23, and for each state fiscal year thereafter, the general assembly shall appropriate two hundred thousand dollars from the general fund to the department for allocation to the office for the purposes of this section.
(b)
The department may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, and donations for the purposes of this section.
(5)
The state board of health may promulgate rules to implement this section.
Added by 2022 Ch. 292,§1, eff. 8/10/2022.
2022 Ch. 292, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).