You only need two things to save a life – a basic knowledge of CPR and a knack for singing the Bee Gees hit Stayin’ Alive.
At first it might seem slightly inappropriate to sing Stayin’ Alive while quite literally trying to help a human stay alive, but there’s quite a compelling reason for it.
CPR has experienced a little makeover over the past couple of years, with organisations hoping to make it easier for first responders to step in and help someone in an emergency situation.
The American Heart Association is now promoting a hands-only version of CPR that drops the difficult mouth-to-mouth maneuver they had long been teaching.
Now all you have to do us press down hard and fast in the center of the chest until the ambulance or someone with an automatic defibrillator arrives to take over.
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Another one bites the dust also works.
We were taught to do CPR to the beat of staying alive when in year 9 PE back in 2009. Definitely not a new thing.
Not that it was emphasised in this article, but the "new" part of the protocol is that the "mouth to mouth" component of CPR has been dropped in favour of concentrating on chest compressions only. This follows increasing evidence that effective chest compressions alone may be associated with better outcome in the setting of bystander-assisted out of hospital arrests.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...