The first simulator for medical education

Virtual simulation in Medicine get widespread use from a simulator developed at the beginning of the 1960s by a Norwegian plastic toy manufacturer called Asmund Laerdal and by an Austrian-Czech physician Peter Safar. It was originally developed for training mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. After a while, it became known as “Resuci Anne” or “CPR Anne”. Interesting is a popular theory that affirms that Recusci Anne’s face was derived from L’Inconnue de la Seine, an unidentified young woman whose putative death mask become popular between artists due to its beauty. This simulator has helped physicians all around the world to execute resuscitation maneuvers in a standardized workflow. It has evolved along the years, and now can be found in uncountable simulator rooms.

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