Capps Participates in AED Hunt on the Hill

Capps, along with other members of Congress, posed for photos with an automated external defibrillator (AED) to bring attention to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). SCA claims more than 295,000 lives in the United States every year and is the leading cause of death in school children. The event was hosted by the Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation.

Capps is the author of the Teaching Children to Save Lives Act (H.R. 2308), legislation that would provide critical resources to assist schools with teaching students across the country the life-saving skills of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how to use automated external defibrillators (AED).

She has also introduced the SAFE PLAY Act, legislation encouraging school districts to adopt best practices to ensure children’s safety in athletics, focusing on several areas including heat exposure, CPR and AED training, concussion response, and energy drink consumption.

Cardiomyopathy, tragically, impacts thousands of families every year,” Capps said. “The AED Hunt on the Hill was able to raise awareness for sudden cardiac arrest, while showing the need to train people in CPR and the use of AEDs in our Capitol, in our schools, and in our nation’s communities everywhere.”

Recently, a Capitol Police Officer saved the life of a man who collapsed outside the Hart Senate Office Building because an AED was located nearby.

SOURCE: Congresswoman Lois Capps