How does a Bee Gees song help doctors to save lives?

Gina Ford of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://Week.com">Week.com</a> reports on it: In this week's health wrap up, area doctors give the term "staying alive" new meaning, as they believe a hit from the 1970s has the perfect rhythm to save lives. Physicians say the ideal number of chest compressions per minute to kick start a heart are 100 beats...and local doctors say the Bee Gees hit "Stayin' Alive" is the perfect song to keep the rythm. Four physicians at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria conducted a potentially life saving study. A group of medical residents and students practiced remembering the rhythm of C-P-R to the tunes of the Bee Gees. "Really we've got a problem with C-P-R. People are not doing it fast and strong enough. And the recommendation now is that we do CPR at 100 compressions per minute", said Dr. John Hafner of the U of I College of Medicine at Peoria. And according to the physicians, nothing helps save a life better than the hit "Stayin' ...  more