The Paulsen Airway™ is the result of lessons learned throughout the world.

As a war veteran, I have had the opportunity to work alongside the finest forward surgical teams (CRNA, 66F.) While on missionary surgical teams we provided care for patients who had no one else, patients that were very sick due to lack of care and in places where limited resources were always a given. 

Leading teams into desolate regions of the world is a tough task.  Rewarding but tough. Our attention to detail magnifies as we dissect every product in our bag with a heightened awareness of what it can and cannot do, forced to choose which supplies are most important.

With limited space, it is easy to see redundancy in engineering. Using multiple products to complete singular tasks creates deficits and delays in treatment while excess  waste mounts with minimal sanitation available.  Seeing these on a smaller scale allows us to see what is happening on a larger scale.  These redundancies create corporate profits at a cost to providers and the environment.

This led to the innovation of The Paulsen Airway.  

The first time a provider uses our airway they will become a part of the mission, the mission to provide patients with the most advanced oral airway and medical care—a mission for the greater good of humanity.  We are proud to create a fund with profits from the Paulsen Airway: the Anesthesia Mission Fund.  

The Anesthesia Mission Fund provides funding for NGO and mission surgical teams. These surgical teams depend on donations.  We have seen first hand what military teams can do with federal funding. It is our goal to help every surgical team secure the necessary funding to function at the same high level.

Heath W. Paulsen, CRNA

FORWARD SURGICAL TEAM VETERAN