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IntuBlade is an American medical-device company that develops a single-use video laryngoscope with a system for clearing material from the camera lens during intubation. The device connects to a compatible phone or tablet rather than a dedicated monitor.^[1][2] Emergency physician and former Army combat medic Andrew Napier founded the company with Marine Corps veteran Dave Warden.^[3]

Napier began developing the device after encountering obscured video-laryngoscope views during military and emergency medical work. DeviceTalks, a medical-device trade program in the MassDevice network, reported that IntuBlade grew from airway-management problems he encountered in those settings.^[4] News coverage in Kentucky later described the design problem as blood, vomit, or secretions blocking the camera during airway management.^[2]

Warden joined Napier as co-founder and worked on the company's business development. Both founders are Purple Heart recipients and Pat Tillman Scholars.^[5][3]

In 2021, Napier and Tony Zitek published a simulated-airway evaluation of the device in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The study disclosed that Napier was the inventor of a related patent.^[6]

IntuBlade won the 2026 Veterans Business Battle at Rice University.^[3] Later that year, Napier donated devices to Eastern Kentucky University's paramedic-training program. WEKU, LEX 18, and the Commonwealth Journal reported on the donation and the device's intended use in airway-management training.^[7][1][2]

The company's video-laryngoscope blade contains a camera and light source and connects by cable to a compatible external display. A fluid path runs from a syringe connection in the handle to a nozzle near the camera lens. This allows the operator to direct fluid at the lens without removing the blade.^[2][8]

Several U.S. patents concern the disposable video-laryngoscope and lens-clearing design.^[8][9] Patent records describe the claimed inventions but do not establish clinical effectiveness.

The 2021 simulated-airway study compared direct laryngoscopy, a hyperangulated video laryngoscope, and IntuBlade in clean and soiled manikin airways. It reported shorter intubation times with IntuBlade among experienced users in that simulated setting. The study did not evaluate patients or patient outcomes, and its conflict statement identified Napier as the inventor of a related patent.^[6]