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There has been a lot of talk about how doing CPR to the 100 beat-per-minute song Stayin’ Alive<\/em> by the Bee Gees was the way to go.\u00a0 It has the proper number of beats per minute, and can potentially keep you on pace correctly.\u00a0 Another song that fits the mold, albeit a morbid one, would be Another One Bites the Dust<\/em> by Queen.<\/p>\n

There has been other research, meanwhile, indicated that a childrens\u2019 song called \u201cNellie the Elephant\u201d was better.\u00a0 I have never heard of that song, so I’m not sure how many would think of it and be able to apply that if they were in a position where they needed to do CPR.<\/p>\n

New research has been conducted at the Malcolm Woollard of Coventry University in Britain, where they conducted an experiment with 74 delegates attending an Australian College of Ambulance Professionals conference in New Zealand.\u00a0 The delegates had volunteered to perform CPR on a training dummy.<\/p>\n

Using a song called Disco Science<\/em> by Mirwais, 82 percent of the volunteers were able to maintain compressions within the optimal range of 100 to 120 per minute.\u00a0 This is contrasted with Achy Breaky Heart<\/em> by Billy Ray Cyrus, which had only 64 percent of volunteers maintaining the the optimal compression range.<\/p>\n

The researchers found, however, that more than a third of compressions were too shallow, regardless of the music, and at least half of the volunteers did not position their hands correctly.\u00a0 \u201cWhen considering the combined importance of correct depth and rate, the authors are unconvinced that music provides any benefit in improving the quality of CPR compared with a metronome or audible feedback, suggesting that this interesting but unproductive area of resuscitation research should be discontinued,\u201d they wrote.\u00a0 Sounds like they need better training with close-up views of CPR done correctly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The research has been reported in the Emergency Medicine Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

–via<\/a><\/p>\n

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