IT’S a disco tune that has been packing dance floors for decades.

But the Bee Gees’ hit Stayin’ Alive is now being recommended for another purpose – to save lives

People in Huddersfield who have no medical training are being urged to give the kiss-of-life a miss if they have to give CPR.

Instead, the British Heart Foundation is asking them to give just chest compressions to the Saturday Night Fever anthem. The medical charity is the first organisation in the UK to actively promote hands-only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

It says bystanders should now ignore the traditional life-saving technique and give hard and fast compressions in the centre of the chest.

The advice comes as a new poll shows that almost half (47%) of people in Yorkshire were put off helping because of a lack of knowledge of CPR.

Nearly a fifth (19%) worried specifically about the thought of the kiss-of-life or catching an infectious disease.

The survey also revealed that almost half of respondents (43%) living in the region feared they could be sued if they did anything wrong.

The charity is urging people to put aside their concerns and intervene.

This is because without CPR of some kind, there is very little chance of someone surviving a cardiac arrest.

Ellen Mason, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: “The kiss-of-life can often be daunting for untrained bystanders who want to help when someone has collapsed with a cardiac arrest.

“Hands-only CPR should give lots of people in Yorkshire the confidence and know-how to help save someone in cardiac arrest, the ultimate medical emergency.”