In the late 1950s, Asmund Laerdal designed a life-like mannequin for CPR training, responding to Peter Safar's need for practical demonstrations without risking injury to participants. Safar, who developed CPR to sustain blood flow after cardiac arrest, faced a challenge with rib fractures during practice. Laerdal's innovation was influenced by personal experience with CPR on his son and knowledge from working with soft plastics. To ensure comfort, Laerdal chose to model the mannequin after a woman, believing it would encourage more participants to engage willingly in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
To teach CPR effectively, a training mannequin was needed, and Norwegian toymaker Asmund Laerdal created a lifelike model that resembled an unconscious patient.
The design of the mannequin aimed to appear unthreatening, with the decision to model it after a woman based on the assumption that men would hesitate to perform mouth-to-mouth on a male.
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