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Laerdal's Premature Anne Simulation Training Report
The first of its kind, Laerdal’s Premature Anne simulation training manikin is the latest, most innovative development in the resuscitation training of our medical practitioners and midwives to save the lives of babies born as early as 25 weeks.

According to Tommy’s charity, around 80,000 babies are born each year in the UK needing specialist hospital care – this equates to one in nine babies, but with realistic training, medical professionals are capable of saving an increasing number of these tiny lives.

The first ten minutes are critical for a preterm new-born, so Premature Anne’s anatomically accurate airway is designed to train airway management, including the placement of an ET tube and the Sellick Manoeuvre. Each of these features

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