First and foremost, if you’ve never taken a CPR class, please do. It may be one of the most useful things you ever learn to do.
Second, if you don’t know the classic Bee Gees song “Stayin’ Alive”, learn it.
The American Heart Association recommends that to revive a stopped heart, you should perform CPR at 100 compressions per minute. The Stayin’ Alive song is 103 beats per minute, making it the almost perfect song to perform CPR to. Imagine that! What a fitting title too.
On the other hand, the song “Another one bites the dust” by Queen has almost the perfect number of beats per minute too, but it might not be one that you want to be heard humming to as you try to revive a dying heart.
This might sound funny, but it’s serious stuff. Learn CPR. You may save a life.
You should also wash your hands to Happy Birthday or Row Row Row your Boat three times to clean hands and stop the spread of infection.
And eveyone says that I have no rhythm???
Great tip – but, geez, that music video was seriously disappointing. When I hear “Stayin’ Alive” I think of colorful lights and dancing… not slow strolls through ghost towns. How unlively. (Also unclear how standing on the porch of a dilapidated house with a couple other guys shows that one is “a woman’s man”.)
Betty
I agree, it’s a pretty bad video… lol.
mary
I just took an ACLS (Advanced CPR for health professionals) and there was a discussion about Stayin Alive vs Another One Bites the Dust as the timing tune. We all (three docs, one nurse, one PA like Another One…