Legislative Intent

(a)I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that early defibrillation can sustain the life of, and temporarily stabilize, a person in cardiac arrest, and that early defibrillation operates as an extension of a physician in sustaining the life of and stabilizing a person in cardiac arrest, thus helping to preserve the Guam family.

(b)It is the intent of I Liheslaturan Guåhan that the public have access to automated external defibrillators for the purpose of saving the lives of persons in cardiac arrest.