How a girl's 'death mask' from the 1800s became the face of CPR dolls

Resusci Annie, also known as Rescue Annie, CPR Annie, or Resuscitation Annie, is a model of training manikin used for teaching CPR to Paramedics, healthcare professionals and members of the general public. Resusci Anne was developed by the Norwegian toy maker Asmund Laerdal and is still produced by the medical supply company Laerdal. The distinctive face of Annie was based on L'Inconnue de la Seine, the death mask of an unidentified young woman reputedly drowned in the River Seine around the lat

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🫀⚡ CREEPY CPR HISTORY ⚡🫀 Did you know the face of the CPR mannequin you practice on is based on a real woman who died? 😳👀 Meet Resusci Anne (or Annie) — the most famous CPR training mannequin in the world. Her calm, serene face was inspired by a 19th-century woman pulled from the Seine River in Paris. No name. No history. Just a hauntingly peaceful expression… preserved forever as a death mask. 🕯️ In the 1960s, Norwegian toymaker Åsmund Lærdal used that face to create Resusci Anne, the mann