I’m not making this up.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Medical School have identified a song that has the perfect beat for performing CPR . . . Stayin’ Alive.
Yes, doctors and medical students in the study found they performed the ideal number of chest compressions at the optimum rhythm while listening to the 1977 Bee Gees hit from the movie Saturday Night Fever.
According to Dr. David Matlock, the study’s author, the American Heart Association recommends 100 chest compressions per minute, which is more than most people realize. The doctors and students listed to Stayin’ Alive on their iPods while performing CPR on mannequins. “It drove them and motivated them to keep up the rate, which is the most important thing,” he said.
It seems some people in the American Heart Association have been aware of the Stayin’ Alive phenomenon for a couple of years now and have used it in CPR classes. The AHA’s Dr. Vinay Nadkarni of the University of Pennsylvania said there’s also a song by the group Queen with a similar beat, “but it didn’t seem quite as appropriate.”
That song?
Another One Bites the Dust.
It seems some people in the American Heart Association have been aware of the Stayin’ Alive phenomenon for a couple of years now and have used it in CPR classes. The AHA’s Dr. Vinay Nadkarni of the University of Pennsylvania said there’s also a song by the group Queen with a similar beat, “but it didn’t seem quite as appropriate.”
That song?
Another One Bites the Dust.
Click here for the Associated Press article.
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