Stayin' Alive

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27221281/

Under most circumstances, it's best to keep the beat of the Bee Gees song “Stayin' Alive” out of your head, but heart specialists have come up with one good reason to remember: It could save someone's life.

Turns out the 1977 disco hit has 103 beats per minute, a perfect number to maintain — and retain — the best rhythm for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR.

A small study by University of Illinois College of Medicine researchers in Peoria has found that 10 doctors and five medical students who listened to the "Saturday Night Fever" tune while practicing CPR not only performed perfectly, they remembered the technique five weeks later.

anyone know any better CPR songs at 100-100 bpm ?

humbert

It's still not worth it.

Agamemnon

Urgh, I'd rather die than be resuscitated by someone humming the Bee Gees. I might get a medical bracelet made up to that effect.

If you performed CPR to the beat of Motörhead's "The Ace Of Spades", their heart would probably explode like a cheap grenade.

Sharpshooter

Really, its not just Jive talkin?

Epic Tissue

Awesome song.

Shoot the nay sayers!

Overheal

The irony of having your life saved to the rythym of stayin' alive is priceless.

Dord

Green Day's song "When I Come Around" is about 100bpm... Oh the ironing!

ejmaztec

A bit late for one of the Bee Gees. :eek:

tony1kenobi

Rather that than your staple current chart ballad........actually stayin alive would be pretty awesome to wake up to.

stovelid

Why use it to resuscitate somebody and then have them hang themselves because they can't get the tune (or the sight of Robin Gibb) out of their head?

False economy.

KTRIC

"Thousand" by Moby peaks at 1000bpm

It would be great fun doing CPR to that.