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Prof. Patrick Schoettker is a Professor and Head of the Department of Anesthesiology at the CHUV University Hospital (Lausanne, Switzerland). He is the inventor of various airway devices (S-Guide® Malleable Intubating guide for difficult Airway management, Airtraq Mobile® for Airtraq) and holds various patents in the field of airway management and wireless monitoring. He is a strong advocate of public-private partnerships and is the clinical initiator and lead of the Medical Virtual Reality Intubation Simulation project that helps clinicians improve their understanding of tracheal intubation with the help of Virtual Reality for Videolaryngoscopy.
He is a co-founder of Biospectal, the startup that revolutionizes accessibility and actionability of connected remote hypertension patient monitoring, management, and research through software embedded in the global base of smartphones and connected devices.
He is the founding and acting president of the non-profit “Fondation Latine des Voies Aériennes (www.flava.ch)”, which organizes annual difficult airway courses throughout Switzerland and financially supports airway-related research.
Professor Schoettker has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles, and 25 book chapters and is the editor of the book “Perioperative Hemostasis” published by Springer.