For aerosol protection during bag mask ventilation
and scope procedure

SAM before you start

For aerosol protection during
bag mask ventilation and
scope procedure

SAM before you start

0%
of health care workers infected with COVID-19 during Victoria’s second wave caught it at work
0%
of those health care workers infected at work were nurses
0%
of men globally have facial hair or a beard

SAM Safety Shield

SAM Safety Shield

Developed by Dr Paul Scott, anaesthetist and founder of Scott Airway Management, to address critical safety issues identified with bag-mask ventilating and protecting health care professionals from aerosolised patients airway secretions.

Developed by Dr Paul Scott, anaesthetist and founder of Scott Airway Management, to address critical safety issues identified with bag-mask ventilating and protecting health care professionals from aerosolised patients airway secretions.

CRITICAL NEED

CRITICAL NEED

Improving bag-mask ventilation

  • Globally more than 55% of men have facial hair or a beard.
  • A beard is an independent predictor of impossible bag-mask ventilation.
  • Currently there are no solutions in the market to overcome this problem.

CRITICAL NEED

CRITICAL NEED

Reducing viral transmission

  • 70%-80% of health care workers  infected with Covid-19 during Victoria’s second wave of infections were caught at work.
  • In hospitals, 70% of infections were among nurses.
  • Transmission through eyes and mouth is a risk to staff and increases pressure on resources.

SAM Safety Shield

SAM Safety Shield Guedel

Critical need: improving bag-mask ventilation in bearded and misshapen faces

Globally more than 55% of men have facial hair or a beard. A beard is an independent predictor of impossible bag-mask ventilation.

SAM Safety Shield Guedel was developed to address critical safety issues identified with bag-mask ventilating patients with facial hair and misshapen faces.

A secondary benefit is the protection of health care professionals from patients aerosolised secretions during bag-mask ventilation.

SAM Safety Shield Bite Block

SAM Safety Shield for use with a bite Block during endoscopy bronchoscopy,  trans oesophageal echo assists to reduce viral transmission between patients and health care professionals.

Currently for use with Oxyguard ® bite block provides additional protection from patients airway secretions compared to using a bite block alone.

When a patient is unable to wear a surgical mask when undergoing a medical procedure like an endoscopy, the SAM Safety Shield reduces the risk of infectious aerosol particles being released during breathing infecting health care professionals.

SAM Safety Shield

SAM Safety Shield Guedel

Critical need: improving bag-mask ventilation in bearded and misshapen faces

Globally more than 55% of men have facial hair or a beard. A beard is an independent predictor of impossible bag-mask ventilation.

SAM Safety Shield Guedel was developed to address critical safety issues identified with bag-mask ventilating patients with facial hair and misshapen faces.

A secondary benefit is the protection of health care professionals from patients aerosolised secretions during bag-mask ventilation.

SAM Safety Shield Bite Block

SAM Safety Shield for use with a bite Block during endoscopy bronchoscopy,  trans oesophageal echo assists to reduce viral transmission between patients and health care professionals.

Currently for use with Oxyguard ® bite block provides additional protection from patients airway secretions compared to using a bite block alone.

When a patient is unable to wear a surgical mask when undergoing a medical procedure like an endoscopy, the SAM Safety Shield reduces the risk of infectious aerosol particles being released during breathing infecting health care professionals.

How to use SAM Safety Shield

How to use SAM Safety Shield

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Reducing the risk

Reducing the risk

Bag-mask ventilation requires overcoming airway and lung resistance to deliver oxygen to the lungs.

This requires delivering high pressures to the mouth to drive the movement of gas.

This results in aerosolisation of airway secretions and risk of viral transmission to health care workers.

PPE is worn by theatre staff, without controlling the risk at the source.

SAM Safety Shield

SAM Safety Shield

Infection control, it’s not over when patients are under.

Meet our team

A breadth and depth of expertise across multiple fields

Dr Paul Scott

Dr Paul Scott is an Anesthetic Specialist who works privately at all hospitals in Brisbane, Australia. Paul has undertaken extensive training in anaesthesia both in Australia and overseas and has worked on 6 continents.

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Paul has a strong interest in medical education with a particular emphasis in Crisis Management and Error Management. Through his passion for teaching Paul developed a medical education business with a mission to improve patient and health care professional safety. PaperScalpelRock, which trains other specialists health professionals on the principals of optimising patient care in critical situations, is still delivering on that mission today. As CEO of this company, Paul developed and coordinated large teams to deliver national and international events, licensed his own IP to global corporations for international use, and develop long standing relationships with medical industry leaders.

His drive to innovate and commitment to improving patient care has led him to create Scott Airway Management as a vehicle for developing and commercialising airway devices. Paul has developed a range of medical devices from napkin sketch to in-market product in under 18 months by leveraging his wide network of clinicians, industry leaders and ability to drive projects to their completion.

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Rachel Boden

Rachel works as a CEO Consultant across a number of businesses. Currently CEO of RabMed (t/a Obagi Medical Products Australia), COO of iStaySafe and previous CEO of Find-me Technologies, Rachel has a demonstrated history of over 30 years in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals and Health IT industries developing and launching new products in market.

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Rachel’s ability to quickly assess a products potential and create market opportunities are evident in the business success she has had throughout her career. Rachel also has a strong business acumen and experience as a CEO with full P&L responsibilities as well as running her own business. She has project managed product development from idea through to commercialisation in a start-up environment so is very well placed to manage the project for Scott Airway Management across all aspects.
Rachel is a strong healthcare services professional with a nursing background in midwifery, a Grad. Dip. in Child and Adolescent Health and adult nursing including critical care.
Skilled in, developing new business, coaching/ leading teams, sales & marketing in the pharmaceuticals and medical devices industries, including start-ups and large corporates.
Rachel has always been highly invested in bringing products to market that provide solutions to problems that exist in todays society. Development of a progesterone product through clinical trials and drug manufacture for preterm birth and miscarriage prevention and recently a wearable device for use in the family and domestic violence market. Both have provided unique and innovative experiences across new product development, design and manufacturing that Rachel believes drive her to continue to create innovative products in the critical care market that will drive the success of Scott Airway Management.

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Glennis is Graphic Designer specialising in bringing brand identity to life through web design, innovative content marketing, and sales and training collateral that drives revenue generation.

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With years of substantial administration experience, Glennis works collaboratively to design focused solutions.

Glennis has time-management, problem solving, and technical skills proven by years of experience in government, corporate, and startups.

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Design Momentum

Design Momentum is a Sydney based industrial design consultancy who transform great product ideas in to market-ready designs.

For over 25 years, Design Momentum has provided industrial design services to innovative brands, medical research teams and entrepreneurs.

LuLa Creative

Logo and branding for Scott Airway Management created by Lula Creative.

Anaesthetist

“Patients with a beard cause me anxiety, now I can be comfortable I can ventilate them.”

Intensive Care Paramedic

“This will be the go-to device in every ambulance.”

Anaesthetist

“This would help protect us during endoscopy!”

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