Cardiopulmonary resuscitation with Bee Gees! October 20, 2008

You know well how important it is to know the rules of cardiopulmonary resuscitation properly. Now the University of Illinois medical school suggested to use the rhytm (103 beats per minute) of Stayin Alive, the famous song of Bee Gees.

“Properly performed CPR can triple survival rates for cardiac arrest, but many people hesitate to jump in because they don’t feel confident about maintaining the proper rhythm,” Matlock says in a news release. “Our research subjects felt that listening to “Stayin’ Alive” improved their ability to perform chest compressions at the proper speed, and indeed their performance even five weeks later was excellent,” Matlock says.

First, how to perform adult CPR and save a life according to the British Red Cross:

And the well-known song:

Let’s practice…