| Original Resusci Anne | |
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Origin |
Asmund Laerdal and Bjorn Lind |
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Type |
CPR Training Dummy |
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Effects |
Allows user to blow air into the lungs of another |
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Downsides |
None |
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Activation |
Blowing into the doll |
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Collected by |
James MacPherson |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
January 22nd, 1971 |
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Origin[]
Asmund Laerdal was a successful toy maker who turned to making soft plastic, realistic dolls in the 50's. Laerdal also was manufacturing imitation wounds for Red Cross first aid training in Norway and Sweden, when he learned of the new CPR resuscitation technique, and envisioned life sized mannequins as the ideal training tool. He was assisted by anesthesiologists Bjorn Lind in making the first practice CPR dummy, Resusci Anne. They showcased the doll in September, 1960 in Stavanger Norway. Anne was introduced to the First International Symposium on Resuscitation in Stavanger.
They based her image off of an unknown girl who had drowned after taking her own life in the river Seine. The case was known as L’Inconnue de la Seine (“The Unknown of the Seine”). Despite her death, her body and face remained beautiful, with her lips curled in a slight smile. As was traditional of the time, her face was immortalized in a death mask. Realizing that men might be reluctant to practice on a male dummy, and capitalizing on the story's popularity in Europe, Laerdal designed the doll after the girl.
Effects[]
Blowing into the doll's mouth allows the user to supply air to another person.
Collection[]
Collected by James MacPherson after a museum patron was suddenly hospitalized after a CPR demonstration. The man survived, but it was found that his lungs had inflated with too much air at the time.