Comparison of the GlideScope Highly Angled Video Laryngoscope with the Storz D- Blade for first pass success in patients with known predictors of difficult airway randomized .

Michael Aziz MD , Ron Abrons MD, Davide Cattano MD, Emine Bayman PhD, David Swanson MD, Carin Hagberg MD , Michael Todd MD, and Ansgar Bambrink MD PhD.

This study is done with a precision that is an example of the best work in sorting out the variables in a complex group of patients treated in excellent hospitals. I commend this paper as essential reading to all airway managers  without comment as the work speaks for itself.

Macewen Medal to Dr John Allen Pacey MD FRCSc at World Airway Management Meeting , Dublin, Nov. 2015

Acknowledgements

This medal represents the combined efforts of a great many people, while I cannot mention each great contribution the following are significant.

The teams of Saturn Biomedical Systems and our distributors such as Vitaid Company led by Will Stewart.

Awni Ayoubi who managed the roll out  of a manufacturable GlideScope and co-creation of the Saturn Biomedical Systems Company.

The Great teams at Verathon Medical both in Canada where creation and manufacture of 33+ blades occurred and in Bothell Washington where the GlideScope was taken to the world.

The great contributions of all of our Medical Experts including Dr. Richard Cooper, Dr. John Doyle, and Dr. Mike Bishop who produced  pivotal studies and documented the value of the device.

The Society for Airway Management was very important in identifying the role of GlideScope highly angled video Laryngoscope and helped spread the technology to their peers since 2001.

DAS in UK and ESA which included the Glidescope in so many workshops since 2003 that they remain uncounted.

Finally my wife Doris, an ICU and PACU nurse, who was a willing subject for many preclinical application tests . Without Doris support, there would be no prize contribution.