Rhythm Save Lives

Written by David on October 17th, 2008

This is a bit off topic,  but it’s Friday, and it amuses me.

“Stayin’ Alive” might be more true to its name than the Bee Gees ever could have guessed: At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart.  In a small but intriguing study from the University of Illinois medical school, doctors and students maintained close to the ideal number of chest compressions doing CPR while listening to the catchy, sung-in-falsetto tune from the 1977 movie “Saturday Night Fever.”

So does “Night Fever” make you sick?

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