50 years of evolving needs and solutions

For more than 50 years, Laerdal Medical has created innovative products dedicated to helping save lives in the field of acute medicine. From the first Resusci Anne to the latest breakthrough in simulation training products, Laerdal’s lifelike manikins have prepared generations of medical professionals and lay responders around the world to save lives and improve patient outcomes.

	The need for a lifelike training aid for mouth-to-mouth ventilation, and to make rescuers willing to blow into a ”dead” person, led Asmund S. Laerdal, together with Dr. Bjorn Lind and Dr.Peter Safar to develop Resusci-Anne.
	The first AHA/JAMA Guidelines for CPR in 1974 recommended that full CPR be taught also to lay people. Recording Resusci Anne allowed “training to perfection”, reporting quality of CPR on a paper strip.
	In the 1980's the American Heart Association set a criteria of 90% correct performance to obtain CPR certification: SkillMeter Resusci Anne was developed to meet the need for quantitative real-time CPR measurement and feedback.
	In the 1990’s there was much focus on sufficient hands-on practice. Little Anne was introduced (1995) as a supplemental trainer to meet the need for a lower student to manikin ratio.
	In the 2000's growing concern about patient safety and costefficiency caused increased focus on patient simulation and self-directed learning. Also, research demonstrated that the quality of CPR delivered by even health care professionals was poor and that CPR measurement and feedback helped improve performance.

SimMan 3G is the culmination of this experience, creating the most durable and easy to use patient simulator on the market.

Our Users Are Our Best Reference
An estimated 300 million people have been trained on Laerdal products and hundreds of thousands of instructors continually turn to Laerdal to meet their educational needs. This endorsement is evidence that when you choose Laerdal products, they will be there, working, whenever and wherever you need them.

A Leader In Patient Simulation
Laerdal has more than 9,000 patient simulators in use globally, including over 5,000 SimMan, making it by far the most widely used patient simulator in the world. SimMan 3G, our next generation patient simulator continues this legacy and will push the boundaries of simulation training to new and exciting heights.

What the future holds in terms of new product solutions from Laerdal will much depend on what we can learn from tomorrow’s medical science. Evidence pertaining to survival helps us understand how we can further extend, enhance, and tailor our solutions to reach the goal illustrated in The Utstein Formula of Survival, namely increased survival rates.