Posted on 10/16/2008 9:11:54 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. doctors have found the Bee Gees 1977 disco anthem "Stayin' Alive" provides an ideal beat to follow while performing chest compressions as part of CPR on a heart attack victim.
The American Heart Association calls for chest compressions to be given at a rate of 100 per minute in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). "Stayin' Alive" almost perfectly matches that, with 103 beats per minute.
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In a small study headed by Dr. David Matlock of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, listening to "Stayin' Alive" helped 15 doctors and medical students to perform chest compressions on dummies at the proper speed.
Five weeks after practicing with the music playing, they were asked to perform CPR again on dummies by keeping the song in their minds, and again they kept up a good pace.
"The theme 'Stayin' Alive' is very appropriate for the situation," Matlock said in a telephone interview on Thursday. "Everybody's heard it at some point in their life. People know the song and can keep it in their head."
The findings will be presented this month at a meeting of the American College of Emergency Physicians in Chicago.
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If that includes wearing bell bottoms, huge collars, poly pants and coifed hair, I would prefer the heart attack.
So while you’re laying there:
“I’m goin nowhere
Somebody help me”
Of course, the downside is, you’d live the rest of your life with that song in your head.
Ditto! If somebody started singing BeeGees at me while I was flatlining, I’d think I was in hell.
Then 4 minutes 45 seconds later you start trying to figure out "How Deep Is Your Love" with your patient and then get arrested and lose your medical license.
It is 2008 and disco still sucks.
Thanks for this post, CC, now the damn song is stuck in my head!
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