New Podcast: From Combat Medic to Entrepreneur — Dr. Andrew Napier’s IntuBlade Startup Journey
In our latest “For Startups, by Physicians” podcast, Lindsay Kriger chats with Dr. Andrew Napier, founder and CEO of IntuBlade, a video laryngoscope medical device company with patented lens-cleaning technology for performing rapid intubations.
Dr. Napier tells Lindsay how the idea for this device was first inspired by his experiences treating the wounded in Afghanistan, and having difficulty using laryngoscopes in the field:
“You would’ve to take the thing out because the geometry was hyper-angulated, so you couldn’t see the anatomy correctly,” he explains. “You’d have to take the device out, clean it off manually, and then reinsert that… I kept thinking, this has gotta be different. Someone’s gonna come along and fix this.”
Listen to the whole thing above, and go here for the transcript and podcast subscription links.
