Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
A coalition of global health organizations have united to address a critical gap in anesthesia safety: the lack of capnography in low-resource settings, a situation that is putting countless lives at risk.
Global health organizations partner to urge health care systems globally, to include a capnograph as an essential anesthesia monitor for safer surgery in a capnography action letter.
Lifebox, in collaboration with local and regional partners, organized two SAFE OR workshops in India, November 23-28, with Lifebox trustee Dr. Isabeau Walker acting as course director. In Nanded, Maharashtra, Dr. Someshwar Patange, long-time Lifebox safe anesthesia champion, joined Isabeau…
When implemented effectively, the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist significantly reduces complications and mortality associated with surgery. In order to share best practices for adapting and implementing the Checklist in specific contexts, Lifebox is developing a Surgical Safety Checklist Implementation…
In our original flagship programme, Lifebox procured a low-cost, low-resource adapted pulse oximeter, commonly referred to as the Lifebox Pulse Oximeter or simply the “Lifebox.” We have now distributed over 20,000 of these to more than 100 countries through a…
Julian Gore-Booth – CEO of the World Federation Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) – Anaesthesia – worth shouting about Dr. Mwemezi Kaino – Lifebox Champion – Global Health from Tanzania and Kenya Dr. Aaron Olurotimi –…
The arrival of September here in New England brings with it a chill in the morning air, a switch from drinking iced coffee to a hot pumpkin spiced latte, and fresh pies with lots of whipped cream, although not necessarily…
The ASA and Lifebox have had a long and successful partnership, what makes this year’s resident challenge so unique? The ASA-Lifebox relationship has become stronger and richer, substantially because of the sharing of staff support and on-line platforms…
Why did you choose to apply for and work with Lifebox for your residency fellowship? For my residency research time, I really wanted to work with an academic global surgery group that would give me the opportunity…
Dr Andrew Hill – The outgoing Society President of ISS/SIC and World Congress of Surgery President 2019 – on WCS 2019 and supporting Lifebox Dr Kathleen Casey Surgeon and Secretary, Executive Committee The G4 Alliance, outgoing President of…
1.) Why should people invest in safer surgery and anesthesia? In countries with advanced healthcare systems, we are very privileged and sheltered from the reality of most of the world’s population, who still don’t have access to safe surgery and…
Lifebox works with in-country and international volunteers around the world to make our work possible. Daniela Rebollo Salazar, a student at New York University’s (NYU) medical school, has just returned from Ethiopia, where she carried out…
