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New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Copenhagen, Denmark shows that the quality of chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be improved by using either a smartphone app or by using the song 'La Macarena' as a mental memory aid.
Improving the quality of compressions performed during CPR can significantly increase the chance of survival and lead to better health outcomes. The goal of the study was to compare the effectiveness of a smartphone metronome application, and a musical mental metronome in the form of the song "La Macarena" at improving the quality of chest compressions. Both the app and the song provide a regular rhythm to help time compressions.
The team selected a group of 164 medical students from the University of Barcelona to perform continuous chest compressions on a manikin for 2 minutes. Subjects either received no guidance (control), were provided with the smartphone app (App group), or were asked to perform compressions to the mental beat of the song "La Macarena" (Macarena group).
The authors conclude that: "Both the app and using mental memory aid 'La Macarena' improved the quality of chest compressions by increasing the proportion of adequate rate but not the depth of compressions. The metronome app was more effective but with a significant onset delay."
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180601225705.htm
[Editor's Comment: This is not a new idea, there was publicity a few years back in the UK for a similar thing but using "Staying Alive" by the BeeGees for the musical beat, and another editor was told during medical training to use "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen. Both seem more appropriate titles than '"La Macarena" - perhaps this is just a twist on whatever music is currently popular. Of course, 'using an app' might replace 'using a computer' as the most pointless claim to being different.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @04:33PM (6 children)
I thought it was the US that used "Staying Alive" while Britain used "Nelly the Elephant":
"Nelly the elephant packed her trunk and said good-bye to the circus,
off she ran with a trumpety-trump, trump, trump, trump."
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 07 2018, @04:36PM (4 children)
"Stayin' Alive" here in Canada as well.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday June 07 2018, @04:46PM (3 children)
While i'm doing CPR, i like to sing "I'm just a sweet transvestite": really freaks out the
victimperson. They come back from the brink of death and i'm licking my lips and grinning down at them like i'm Tim Curry and they're Rocky......--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @06:06PM (1 child)
I'm gonna call bullshit on that ever having happened :P
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:31PM
You must need some help from our artificial intelligence friends: you don't seem able to identify humour on your own.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday June 07 2018, @11:20PM
Reminds me of a first aid course I was at, where one of the trainees asked, after being told to start compressions in the sequence DRABC*, "but what of the patient gets up and hits you?"
It took a while for us to realise they were serious. After going over the meaning of the "R" several times, they refused to believe the patient wouldn't be upset and complaining!
*twenty five years ago, the "S" and the second "D" hadn't been added
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:16PM