Well, you can tell by the way I use my hands
I’m a CPR man: inspired by a band
The Bee Gees keep my pumping right
Whether it is day or night
All I do
Is match the beat
103 times a minute,
Then repeat.
And you’ll be stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive.

Why is “Stayin’ Alive” stuck in our head? Because a new study from the University of Illinois medical school shows that the beats per minute in that Bee Gees song from Saturday Night Fever is just about a perfect match for the number of chest compressions recommended by the American Heart Association. The AHA says 100 chest compressions per minute is the goal. “Stayin’ Alive” has 103 beats a minute.
People are sometimes afraid to perform CPR because they don’t know how to keep the right rhythm. Now we all know what it should be.

We just have one question: If “Stayin’ Alive” can keep you alive, then how come disco died?

-Marc Silver

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