World Congress of Anaesthesiologists 2012
The World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) takes place every four years and the 15th WCA will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from...
Lifebox at ASA
The Lifebox team will be at the upcoming American Society of Anesthesiologists’ annual meeting in Chicago from 15-19 October this year. Find...
“What am I going to do?”
Philip Ongom’s old pulse oximeter finally stopped working last February during an emergency caesarian section. Ask him about that moment and the...
Meet our colleagues
Are you interested in learning more about the anaesthesia providers your donations are helping to support? Follow this link to meet the...
Journeys
Road traffic accidents in Uganda are frequent and brutal. Two years ago, the anaesthesia community at Mulago Regional Referral Hospital, the largest...
Anaesthesia in Uganda
Anaesthesia providers in Uganda lack access to almost everything that we take for granted in developed world practice: basic drugs, monitoring equipment,...
ASA launches campaign for Lifebox
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has launched a campaign to raise donations for Lifebox. The campaign will help us provide pulse...
Anaesthesia training in Uganda
Lifebox colleagues spent two weeks in Uganda from 26 June 2011, providing training on obstetrics, safe anaesthesia and the WHO Surgical Safety...
"Let me say, She was Holding her Breath"
This is Samuel Akolgo, a nurse anaesthetist at the Sandema District Hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana. He received one of...
Lifebox and Smile Train
The steady beep of the pulse oximeter is the hushed voice of the patient on the operating table. The team listens: surgeon,...
