This mannequin was created by doctors James Elam and Peter Safar, and a mannequin designer, Asmund Laerdal. Laerdal chose the face of the beautiful drowned maiden from a painting he'd seen at his ...

There are references to the apparent use of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the Bible but the technique fell out of practice until Dr Safar developed it, along with his colleague, Dr James Elam.