This is an interesting article.....
CHICAGO — "Stayin' Alive" might be more true to its name than the Bee Gees ever could have guessed: At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart.
And in a small but intriguing study from the University of Illinois medical school, doctors and students maintained close to the ideal number of chest compressions doing CPR while listening to the catchy, sung-in-falsetto tune from the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever."
And my favorite part of the article:
"I heard a rumor that 'Another One Bites the Dust' works also, but it didn't seem quite as appropriate," Gilbert said.
Friday, October 17, 2008
"Stayin' Alive" keeping people alive
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I saw that on the news last night. I thought it was pretty interesting.
I heard that on the radio today. That's totally absurd! Doctors get paid hundreds of thousand dollars to find out a way to do chest compressions to songs? hahahah hilariously......weird
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