Resusci Anne
Little Anne (maniquí de reanimación)
- Date
- 1960 · confidence high
- Place
- Stavanger, Norway
- Credited to
- Åsmund Lærdal and Peter Safar
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A medical simulation mannequin for practising mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and, later, CPR, developed by Norwegian toymaker Åsmund Lærdal with physicians Peter Safar and James Elam. Its face was based on the death mask of 'L'Inconnue de la Seine'.
Presented by Lærdal at the First International Symposium on Resuscitation, in Stavanger, Norway, in 1960.
What it led to
- mass training in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and CPR from the 1960s
- worldwide standardisation of first-aid training
- a family of increasingly sophisticated medical simulation mannequins