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Stayin' Alive: CPR rules!
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The Bee Gees
CPR is a life saving technique that combines chest compressions with rescue breathing and defibrilation in emergencies involving people with cardiac arrest.
I've taken and taught CPR for years and one of the hardest things to do is perform chest compressions fast enough to actually do anything useful. Now, it seems we can keep the song in our minds and give the victim the appropriate number of beats. The song actually has 103, but no matter.
In a study at the University of Illinois at Peoria, doctors and medical students listened to "Stayin' Alive" while practicing compressions at the proper rate. After five weeks of practice, they could correctly perform the compressions without the music. Hey, I bet we could do it in less time than that!
According to the authors of the study, CPR can triple survival rates but often doesn't because people don't give compressions quickly enough. Unfortunately many people won't try either because they are not sure how many compressions to give.
This makes it easy because everyone knows the song and can at least remember the tune. Now all you have to do if someone is experiencing a cardiac arrest is assess them and if they need compressions, envision the Gibb brothers and start singing.
Here's a video of the song in case you need a refresher! Wow!
My friend Joshua sent me this link- thanks!
Topics: heart disease , The Bee Gees , CPR
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