{"id":99298,"date":"2019-07-02T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T00:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=99298"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:00:30","slug":"professor-and-lifesaving-innovator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/02\/professor-and-lifesaving-innovator\/","title":{"rendered":"Award winning UH<\/abbr> professor and lifesaving innovator gets funky"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Inaba performing his CPR<\/abbr>-to-music at the Gold Heart event in Dallas. (Photo credit: American Heart Association)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> clinical professor and Kapʻiolani<\/span> Medical Center for Women and Children pediatric emergency specialist Alson Inaba<\/strong> has been presented the first Innovation at Heart award by the American Heart Association<\/a> (AHA<\/abbr>) at the organization\u2019s national Gold Heart event in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n

Inaba, who figured out that the Bee Gees disco classic “Stayin\u2019 Alive” has the ideal beat to do CPR<\/abbr> correctly, began using the song in 2005 when teaching UH<\/abbr> John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> medical students how to properly perform CPR<\/abbr>. A performer himself since his youth as a magician in the islands, Inaba teamed up with AHA<\/abbr> to appear on national television news programs and public gatherings to help promote “Stayin\u2019 Alive” and “Hands-Only CPR<\/abbr>” as a powerful tool to keep hearts pumping.<\/p>\n

Describing his innovative teaching to the AHA<\/abbr>, Inaba said, “Anyone can do a lecture, I do presentations instead. It\u2019s how you present the information that can make all the difference.”<\/p>\n