Glenn P. Gardner, MD
Dr. Glenn Gardner graduated from Northwestern University Medical School at just 22 years of age, launching a career defined by relentless innovation in patient care. For over 37 years he practiced anesthesiology, personally performing over 30 thousand endotracheal intubations all while leading his private anesthesiology group at one of the top Level I Trauma Centers in metropolitan Chicago. He grew frustrated with the outdated intubation tools still in use since 1941 and felt that the procedure remained unnecessarily traumatic, and often dangerously inefficient. Dr. Gardner was convinced there had to be a better way. “If we can put man on the moon,” he reasoned, “we can certainly simultaneously place a tube into the trachea and deliver oxygen the distance of a finger length from the lips.”

That belief led to years of effort to make intubation simpler, safer, and less traumatic. The result? The Ventubation System: the complete airway management platform that provides continuous airway control, ventilation and endotracheal intubation to reduce hypoxia and improve patient outcomes.