No thank you, I'll just die.

[tigerlilly]

Bee Gee's "Stayin' Alive" saves lives

Cool trick, but if I regained consciousness and heard that, I'd be sure I'd gone to Hell...

[Welsh Wench]

I took a CPR class last month and here is the thing---

You have to compress hard and you have to compress fast.
A common mistake is that you are jump-starting a person. You are not.
You are 'artificially' pumping blood through his heart so the cells don't die.

First you perform mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Two initial breaths and watch for chest rise.
The compression works this way--

One hand on top of another interlocking and placed on the center of the chest bone.
Lock your elbows and kneel by the patient. Use your weight and press straight down.
It is important to allow the chest to fully recoil and fill with fresh oxygenated blood.

The set is 30 times and follow with two quick breaths.
Do this for 5 cycles in a 2 minute duration.

OH! My point was this...
The beats on Staying Alive are perfect for the compression rate and gets a rhythm.

But sing it to yourself silently!!!

I think that was the point.

But I think if it were a choice of dying or not, I wouldn't care if they sang, 'The wheels on the bus go round and round....' 

*Wenchie takes her soapbox and her paddles--THE ELECTRIC ONES--and curtseys, exiting the class room*

[Leyla]

I just finished a life support class.  They too said that "Stayin' Alive" had the right rate/rhythm for compressions.  That or "Another One Bites the Dust."   

[Joyce "Delfinia DuSwallow" Howard]

It could be. . . another one bites the dust if you don't do it right.