The fact is that the singer’s songs have an optimal tempo for effective compression of the chest during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an urgent medical procedure aimed at restoring the vital activity of the body and bringing it out of the state of clinical death. It includes CPR (artificial respiration) and chest compressions (indirect heart massage) and is critical to increasing a person’s chances of survival after a cardiac arrest.
For effective CPR, you need to maintain a chest compression rate of 100 (no more than 120) compressions per minute – and more than 50 songs from Swift’s repertoire are suitable for this, say researchers at Monash University’s Victorian Heart Institute.
Experts presented their findings at Swiftposium 2024, a scientific conference dedicated to Taylor Swift.
“A quarter of people who have a heart attack don’t go to hospital at all, and we know that survival rates during cardiac arrest can be significantly improved with CPR,” says Stephen Nicholls, director of the Victorian Heart Institute. “Music plays a key role in maintaining effective CPR. As iconic songs fade, identifying new songs with optimal beats per minute for workouts is critical.”
For a long time, the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the British pop group Bee Gees was used as a “metronome” for determining the time of CPR compressions. In one of the episodes of the cult series “The Office” you can see its use in training (but, of course, everything is a joke there).
The Bee Gees song was released back in 1977, so it is hardly familiar to the younger generation. Researchers suggest using the creativity of a musician who is extremely popular at the moment.
“If you can take something that people enjoy and empower them to feel confident about learning a skill that could save someone, then that’s really powerful,” says Nicholls.
The researchers created a handy chart of Swift’s songs, showing the number of clicks per minute for each:
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Source: New Atlas
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