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.
Selected publications from PubMed
Response to "Reframing rapid sequence intubation safety: the missing psychological dimension".
Boulos NM, Schoettker P, Delaporte A, Freund Y, Grillot N, Joosten A
Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2026 Sep;45(5):101847 doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2026.101847.
Rapid sequence intubation in high-risk patients: what clinicians and researchers must know - a narrative review.
Boulos NM, Schoettker P, Delaporte A, Freund Y, Grillot N, Joosten A
Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2026 Jul;45(4):101764 doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2026.101764.
From Cuffs to Code: Machine Learning in Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring.
Pal R, Le J, Wingert T, Avram O, Jiayu Y, Adham A, Schoettker P, Joosten A, Cannesson M
Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2026 Apr;45(2):101655 doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2025.101655.
An implantable system to restore hemodynamic stability after spinal cord injury.
Phillips AA, Gandhi AP, Hankov N, Hernandez-Charpak SD, Rimok J, Incognito AV, Nijland AEJ, D'Ercole M, Watrin A, Berney M, Damianaki A, Dumont G, Macellari N, De Herde L, Intering N, Smith D, Miller R, Smith MN, Lee J, Baaklini E, Ledoux JB, Ordonnez JG, Newton T, Meliadò EF, Duguet L, Jacquet C, Bole-Feysot L, Rieger M, Gelenitis K, Dumeny Y, Caban M, Ganty D, Paoles E, Baumgartner T, Clinical Study Team, Onward Team, Harte C, Sasportes CD, Romo P, Vouga T, Fasola J, Ravier J, Gautier M, Merlos F, Buschman R, Milekovic T, Rowald A, Mandija S, van den Berg CAT, Kuster N, Neufeld E, Pralong E, Hirt L, Carda S, Becce F, Aleton E, Rogan K, Schoettker P, Wuerzner G, Langerak N, Keijsers NLW, Kwon BK, Guest JD, Ross E, Murphy J, Kurt E, Casha S, Girgis F, van Nes I, Larkin-Kaiser KA, Demesmaeker R, Asboth L, Squair JW, Bloch J, Courtine G
Nat Med. 2025 Sep;31(9):2946-2957 doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-03614-w.
Accuracy of the smartphone blood pressure measurement solution OptiBP to track blood pressure changes in pregnant women.
Almeida P, Cuénoud A, Hoang H, Othenin-Girard A, Salhi N, Köthe A, Christen U, Schoettker P
J Hypertens. 2025 Apr 1;43(4):665-672 doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000003956.
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