Willing to see how training devices for medical students are produced? Welcome to one of the companies located in Saint-Petersburg that produces devices for rendering the first aid and plastic skeletons. Click on the image to view the full size.
A plant producing training aids for medical students was created on the basis of the Soviet Health Ministry in 1934. The enterprise had two departments in Moscow and one in Leningrad. A huge number of training aids were produced that time. Some of them are still kept in schools and colleges. Doctors and scientists participated in development of the models being exact copies of health-care products. After the fall of the Soviet Union the enterprise broke in pieces as well forming three independent companies.
A few words about production of training devices. Its body is made of vinyl plate with the help of metal press.
Two halves of the body are obtained.
A mold is used to get a needed form.
The halves of the bodies are glued to one another.
Ready body frame of a dummy.
Legs and hands are made of polyethylene.
It is done with the help of such a blowing machine.
Heads are made of soft PVC.
Liquid PVC is poured into a metal mould and put into a furnace.
The ready-made heads are colored.
After the coloring.
This is the way other details are produced (stomach, nasopharynx, etc).
Internal base of the head.
Assembling a head.
Ready-made heads.
Heads are fixed to the bodies.
Fixing hands and legs.
Getting a dummy.
A ready training facility is equipped with electronics which allows to control the educational process of resuscitation.
Location: Saint-Petersburg
First!
I-Robot?
Nice smiling skeletons.
It’s the Michael Jackson model .
Creepy. Very creepy.
If I found something looking like the first picture with the bulgy staring eyes I think I’d just leave it to die.
Creepy indeed. They look like they would make for good inhabintats of a haunted house. Anyhow, i think they’ll do their intended job, regardless of appearance.
Overpopulation.
Wasn’t Michael Jackson dead??
Easy… These are dummies. They are not going to threaten your arse.
yanov, those puppets are made for people first aid training.
In english it is called CPR.
I am not posting comments too fast.
is it just me, or does the image 1610 look like Homer Simpson?
Who wants to bet in the near future, this guy will be caught with a male prostitute and a bag of drugs?
Is this Medius? Looks like the product they have.
Please don’t read any comments that are “hidden due to low rating”.
Too late, i did, Yanov…
cool
Is this where Ivan Ivanovich the cosmonaut dummy was made?
Where the devil is my comment, Moderator? Did it make you ill or what? It’s the truth, research it and see for yourself.
I asked if the dummies vomit in your mouth while you are giving them CPR like people sometimes do?
Pics 10, 12 and 13 look like they’d be perfect for a Kraftwerk album cover, if they’re still performing.
LAst!