Global Airway Management Devices Market Analysis and Forecast to 2031: By Type (Infraglottic Airway Devices, Supraglottic Airway Devices, Laryngoscopes, Resuscitators, Cricothyrotomy Kits), Application (Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine), End User (Ambulator

Global Airway Management Devices Market Analysis and Forecast to 2031: By Type (Infraglottic Airway Devices, Supraglottic Airway Devices, Laryngoscopes, Resuscitators, Cricothyrotomy Kits), Application (Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine), End User (Ambulatory Care Settings, Home Care Settings, Hospitals) and Region

Global Airway Management Devices Market is expected to reach $3.1bn by 2031 growing at a CAGR of 6.1% between 2021 and 2031.

Market Overview

Airway management devices are generally used for maintaining/restoring ventilation in a patient. It also comprises evaluating, planning, and using different medical procedures to treat patients with respiratory failures or acute obstruction. Moreover, it also protects the lungs from injury and provides gas exchange facilities to the patients. Some of the frequently used airway management devices to keep the upper airway open for offering unobstructed ventilation are supraglottic airway devices (SADs), Infraglottic airway devices, laryngoscopes, resuscitators, and cricothyrotomy kits.

Report Scope



Market DriversIncreasing demand for emergency and intensive care

Patients suffering from infectious, chronic, and cardiac conditions frequently undergo airway complications, which require immediate treatment. Likewise, road accident victims and people suffering from other trauma injuries may require immediate airway clearance to ensure their safety. Owing to the high number of such cases, the demand for airway management devices is increasing across the world. According to CDC, in 2014-2017, the emergency department (ED) visit rate for persons aged 60 and over was 43 visits per 100 persons aged 60 and over and increased with age, from 34 visits per 100 persons aged 6-69 to 86 visits per 100 persons aged 90 and over. About 30% of patients aged 60 and over who visited emergency departments arrived by ambulance, and this percentage increased with age.

Market OpportunitiesGrowing demand for single-use airway management devices

Single-use medical devices are used over a large application area of the healthcare industry, comprising airway management. Single-use devices such as endotracheal tubes, tracheostomy tubes, laryngoscope blades, and resuscitators find extensive use across healthcare facilities that offer value-based care services and handle critical patients suffering from highly infectious diseases like H1N1 influenza or severe pneumonia. Adding to that, single-use devices offer various benefits over reusable devices—they are pre-sterilized and can be used directly, ensuring patient safety from healthcare-associated infections (HAI). Disposable devices do not require cleaning and decontamination, as these devices are pre-sterilized and disposed of after use. The time saved can be used for other priority responsibilities. Due to these benefits, the vendors are preferably focused on single-use airway management devices. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the use of single-use airway management devices across healthcare facilities that seek to sustain guidelines to reduce widespread infection. COVID-19 patients requiring ventilation support are often intubated using single-use endotracheal tubes or tracheostomy tubes. The growing COVID-19 cases have raised the demand for single-use airway management devices across the globe.

Market RestraintsDearth of skilled professionals

Airway management procedures like endotracheal intubation, tracheostomy, and cricothyrotomy procedures require highly skilled anesthetists and trained nurses. The lack of knowledge about the right choice of immediate treatment can adversely affect the patient’s condition, may increase the recovery time, and can upsurge the direct and indirect expenses. In emergency scenarios, the improper diagnosis and treatment of serious injuries may cause deformities and lead to the dysfunction of the injured area or patient death. The shortage of anesthetists and paramedics has become one of the key concerns for countries worldwide. The shortage has directly impacted the efficiency and capabilities of healthcare settings to supply surgical and emergency care, further hampering the demand for airway management devices used in these procedures.

Impact of COVID-19 on Airway Management Devices Market

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has put immense pressure on healthcare systems worldwide, owing to the sudden rise in the number of people in need of medical care. As the coronavirus is highly transmissible via contact with infected secretions such as respiratory droplets, saliva, and airborne particles, the high risk for anesthesiologists and other personnel involved in the treatment of patients’ airways has created challenges for the airway management devices industry, beside the growing need for respiratory solutions. conversely, efforts are being made across the globe to address these concerns and minimize the risk of infection during ventilator disconnections, tracheal intubations, and extubations.

Market Segmental Analysis

The global airway management devices market is segmented into type, application, and end-user.

Airway Management Devices Market by Type

The various types of airway management devices comprised in the report are Infraglottic airway devices, supraglottic airway devices, laryngoscopes, resuscitators, and cricothyrotomy kits. The Infraglottic airway devices are sub-segmented into endotracheal tubes and tracheostomy tubes. Similarly, the supraglottic airway devices are also bifurcated into laryngeal mask airways, oropharyngeal airways, and nasopharyngeal airways. Also, laryngoscopes are also segmented into conventional laryngoscopes and video laryngoscopes.

The Infraglottic airway devices segment is likely to dominate the market with a CAGR of XX% during the forecast period. Infraglottic devices like endotracheal tubes and tracheostomy tubes are used at the time of intubation for rescuing the airway and providing ventilation after connecting with external breathing assistance systems. Moreover, the rise in prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, coupled with respiratory tract infections is increasing the incidence of acute respiratory failure, thereby driving the demand for intubation procedures and Infraglottic devices across the globe.

Airway Management Devices Market by Application

The various applications of the airway management devices such as anesthesia and emergency medicine.

The anesthesia segment is likely to dominate the market with a constant rate of XX% during the projection period. The key factors such as increasing growth in the number of surgical interventions across the globe, require the patients to be provided with anesthesia. Moreover, the increasing need for maintaining a safe breathing passage to lower the risk of anesthesia-related complications at the time of surgery is also driving the use of airway management devices during anesthesia procedures.

Airway Management Devices Market by End Users

The different end-users comprised in the airway management devices market are ambulatory care settings, home care settings, and hospitals.

The hospital end-user segment is expected to dominate the market with a CAGR of XX% during the forecast period. The key factors such as rising number of hospitals and infrastructural & economic development, especially in developing countries. Moreover, the rising surgical procedures performed-where airway management devices are used for ventilation, oxygenation, and the administration of anesthesia-also support high growth in the hospital’s segment.

Geographical Analysis of Global Airway Management Devices Market

The global airway management devices market is studied for key countries of the regions such as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World.

The large share of this market segment can be described by the presence of a highly developed healthcare system, the significant number of prominent vendors, the rising number of healthcare settings, the growing prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases, and favorable reimbursement policies for airway management devices.

Key Players of Global Airway Management Devices Market

Key Developments in the Global Airway Management Devices Market

• September 2020: VBM Medizintechnik GmbH announced receiving 510(k) clearance from US FDA for its ScalpelCric kit. The kit is suggested to be used for performing cricothyrotomy procedures using the scalpel technique, as per the recommendation from Difficult Airway Society (DAS) 2015 guidelines.
• August 2020: Verathon launched the GlideScope Video Baton QC Large, which is a video laryngoscope used along with GlideScope Core airway management devices.
• January 2020: Smiths Medical announced to add of a PVC-based tracheostomy tube portfolio to its family of Portex Tracheostomy Tubes and Kits. The portfolio includes BLUselect tracheostomy tubes, BLUperc, and BLUgriggs percutaneous tracheostomy kits and trays.

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