How SmartBlade Simplified Its Smartphone Application Technology

How SmartBlade Simplified Its Smartphone Application Technology. SmartBlade offers a cost effective, novel and practical solution to the management of a difficult airway. SmartBlade has harnessed advanced smartphone application technology and cohesively linked it with video laryngoscopy in a sleek design, simplified by cutting edge biomedical engineering.

The device allows single operators of varied skill levels to intubate difficult airways. The clinician can suction a soiled airway or perform apnoeic oxygenation, both without interrupting attempts to intubate. Video conferencing, image capture, recording and secure data storage are all features of the customized SmartBlade application. Video laryngoscopy is a vital area of technology that should be available to all clinicians, regardless of their economic setting or skill set.

The SmartBlade offers a low-cost alternative to expensive video laryngoscopes by replacing the screen with an app enabled smartphone. With functionality, affordability and applicability requirements causing a significant deficit of tools in the video laryngoscopy sector, airway management solution provider SmartBlade has developed a video laryngoscope to assist with the intubation of difficult airways.

“There is a great need for available laryngoscopes, as well as a need for more contextually relevant and applicable technology that can allow for best practice with a broader spectrum of use. It is also important to have technology that speaks specifically to the delivery of universal healthcare,” says SmartBlade co-founder and medical director Dr Caroline Corbett in an interview with Savant.

By Thomas Chiothamisi