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Vic41


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The familiar doll used in CPR training, Rescue Annie or Resusci Anne, is based on a sad incident in Paris. In the late 1800s, the body of a young woman was pulled from the River Seine. Though she was never identified, a death mask was made of her face. Her expression was so peaceful that the mask went viral: vendors widely sold replicas of the mask of the enchanting Inconnue de la Seine, the Unknown Woman of the Seine.

When a CPR training device was in development, the developer decided he needed a realistic mannequin and modeled the dolls face after hers. Thus, many people who learned CPR have had an encounter with the young beauty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resusci_Anne 

http://blog.itriagehealth.com/true-story-cpr-annie/ 

According to Snopes, one false story that she was modelled the deceased daughter of the doctor that invented her was not true although he did have a daughter that died from an asthma attack when a child.  Worth looking at this snopes link as it gives the real story as well of the dummy's true and interesting history.   see;  http://snopes.com/medical/emergent/cprannie.asp 

Interesting they had to make the doll a female to overcome any male objections to "kissing" a male doll (giving mouth to mouth).  



-- Edited by Vic41 on Sunday 4th of May 2014 08:03:16 AM

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Vic, wombat and I talked about this not that long ago and he told me that when he did his CPR course he wanted the one called Anthony confusesmile 

I did my course with the twins. 



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I know a gay guy who's a lifesaver at a beach in Sydney. He said some of his mates in the club found it "confronting" during CPR exercises hehe... but they soon got over it and accepted him as just another member of the team.

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Vic41 wrote:

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Interesting they had to make the doll a female to overcome any male objections to "kissing" a male doll (giving mouth to mouth).".........

 Me thinks this is an urban myth.

its a bit of a generalisation as a reasonable proportion of males like kissing other males, another reasonable proportion of women dislike kissing other women, while another  similarly reasonable proportion of women prefer not to kiss anyone , even men.

i have done CPR on a few folk over the years, and they have all been men. I failed to notice if there were other men standing around reluctant to help because god forbid male lips might touch.



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Rip and Rosie wrote:
Vic41 wrote:

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Interesting they had to make the doll a female to overcome any male objections to "kissing" a male doll (giving mouth to mouth).".........

 Me thinks this is an urban myth.

its a bit of a generalisation as a reasonable proportion of males like kissing other males, another reasonable proportion of women dislike kissing other women, while another  similarly reasonable proportion of women prefer not to kiss anyone , even men.

i have done CPR on a few folk over the years, and they have all been men. I failed to notice if there were other men standing around reluctant to help because god forbid male lips might touch.

 I don't think it is an urban myth, it was the reasoning for making it a female at the time the doll was invented as they feared some objections to males giving MM to a male dummy, whether this was the case in reality or not is another question, but do not think anyone would object to whatever sex the dummy was, saving a life is saving a life.

From my experience in the ambulance service the only time an ambo would object to using mouth to mouth was if they did not have time to get their resuscitator was if the person was suspected of either being poisoned by themselves or others.

 



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