The Risessa Annie Mannequin

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The American Heart Association says that chest compressions on their own can be life-saving. Tracy Stell says the original Annie Mannequin they have at the hospital is from the 80s. She's just got a slight tiny smile on her face, eyes are closed, ears and throat and hair that's needs to be washed. They have other mannequins too. These are better to learn on them because they give you two types of feedback.

When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make the doll’s face look like one specific woman – a woman who they thought had drowned. People call her l’Inconnue de la Seine, or the Unknown Woman of the Seine.

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