Improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality with help from a popular song

Miguel Fonte
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Pediatric cardiorespiratory arrest (CRA) is a rare event that leads to death or survival with neurological sequelae in many cases. CRA in children usually occurs at home, and therefore the training of paramedics and lay people is essential in order to improve the victim's outcome, regardless of their age. Simple and inexpensive ways of improving bystanders' quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be implemented. We hypothesized that a very popular song, with a rhythm that fits the CPR chest compressions rate target would be an effective audio guidance to train schoolchildren in CPR.

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