Its a critical moment in an emergency room, when a baby stops breathing.

However, in this hospital room, the patient bounces back in seconds when hospital staffers simply push the reset button.

Rady Childrens Hospital showed off its newest piece of training technology Thursday.

Thanks to a donation from Fuerte Hills Unit of Rady Children's Auxiliary, doctors and nurses have access to a realistic simulator that looks a lot like a toy.

SimBaby was developed by a company in Sweden and is on the cutting edge of simulation in medicine.

The doll is as life-like as it can be, said Charles Sauer, DO, a Neonatologist at Rady Childrens Hospital.

SimBaby gurgles, breathes and even turns blue depending on how trainers manipulate the program.

We can collapse a lung and do all sorts of training with it, Sauer adds. Thats wonderful for our staff.

Nurses and doctors monitor SimBabys heartbeat, check blood pressure and can even practice placing IVs or inserting chest tubes on the tiny doll.

Then, when trainees take the correct action, the doll cries signaling an end to the exercise.

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