Canadian Medical Association, 2 February 2012
“A campaign by Canada’s anesthesiologists to supply pulse oximeters for all operating rooms, recovery areas and birthing centres in Rwanda has proved so successful that the original goal of supplying 250 of the machines was quickly surpassed…”
World Anaesthesia News, January 2012
“A routine day at a regional referral hospital…” – read more about the life-saving value of a pulse oximeter in this month’s issue of World Anaesthesia News
Pulse oximeters for all, The BMJ, 14 December 2011
“What difference will a £160 (€186, $250) Lifebox pulse oximeter make to low resource countries where surgery is still routinely carried out without this piece of kit, regarded as essential in Western operating theatres? …”
Unsafe surgery, make it zero, The BMJ, 30 November 2011
“The BMJ has chosen Lifebox as its 2011 Christmas charity. Lifebox is working to ensure every operating theatre worldwide is equipped with a £160 pulse oximeter, the most important monitoring device in anaesthesia. Atul Gawande, speaking to Jane Feinmann, explains how you can help…”
ANZCA Bulletin, September 2011
‘It’s one I would be completely happy to use’ says Professor Alan Merry in the latest issue of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists bulletin.
Anaesthesia News, May 2011, Issue 286
‘When a patient refuses consent for anaesthesia in these settings they may be making quite a wise choice!’
The Independent, 24 April, 2011
Atul Gawande: a career built on an obsession with deadly failures.
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, 22 April, 2011
Paediatric Anaesthetist Isabeau Walker and Obstetric Anaesthetist Kate Grady talk to Jenni Murray about Lifebox and how better anaesthetic care in labour can save lives in the developing world.
Radio New Zealand National, 12 March, 2011
Lifebox returns to Radio New Zealand, where Alan Merry talks to Kim Hill about Auckland Hospital’s leading role in developing the Surgical Safety Checklist and Lifebox’s mission to make surgery safer.
Radio New Zealand National, 5 March, 2011
Atul Gawande talks to Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand about developing the Surgical Safety Checklist, writing The Checklist Manifesto and indie rock music in the operating theatre.
Pulse oximeters breathe life into surgery in poorer nations, The Lancet, Vol 377, 1 Jan 2011
“Anaesthetists worldwide have joined forces with safer-surgery advocate Atul Gawande to enable low-income nations to buy vital pulse oximeters. Tony Kirby reports …”
An Oximeter in Every OR, Anaesthesiology News, December 2010, Volume 36:12
“In an effort to make anesthesia safer for patients in the developing world, the World Health Organization is conducting a pilot project to study the use of pulse oximetry during surgery. The study, under way at two hospitals in the Republic of Moldova and the Republic of Zambia, will measure the effectiveness of pulse oximetry use and training by monitoring rates of hypoxemia during surgery…”
New charity hopes to provide cheap pulse oximeters to hospitals in poor countries, BMJ 2010, 341:c6649
“From next year a new charity, Lifebox, will deliver robust, inexpensive pulse oximeters along with educational materials anywhere in the world for just $250 (£160; €180), including postage and packaging (and $25 for a replacement probe). The aim is to save hundreds of thousands of lives by ensuring that every patient undergoing anaesthesia has routine continuous oximetry…”
Atul Gawande – making surgery safer worldwide, The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9746, 25 Sep 2010
“Medicine might not be a surprising career choice for the son of two doctors, but Atul Gawande tried to resist. Raised in Athens, OH, USA, he did not initially follow the path of his paediatrician mother or urologist father. His first degree, in biology and political science at Stanford, kept his options open and a Rhodes Scholarship in politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford followed. Only later did he decide on Harvard Medical School…”
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