Improving the quality of compressions performed during CPR can significantly increase the chance of survival and lead to better health outcomes and the song and the app provide a regular rhythm to help time compressions.
Los del Rio sparked a worldwide dancing epidemic by releasing the catchy tune 'La Macarena' In the summer of 1996.
The goal of the study – by Professor Enrique Carrero Cardenal and colleagues at the University of Barcelona, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, and Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain – 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.
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