Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
Ahead of International Nurses Day, it is crucial to spotlight the critical role of operating room nurses in ensuring surgical safety. Nurses are the backbone of successful surgical outcomes; they blend compassion and clinical expertise, managing every…
'One Crucial Piece of Equipment': Improving anesthesia monitoring with The Smile Train-Lifebox Capnograph.
Whilst there have been improvements in health services and systems in the region, rural populations still have difficulty accessing basic health services. In Guatemala, it is estimated that basic health and nutrition services meet only 54% of the needs of…
The Lifebox-Students for Global Health University Representatives scheme is a unique opportunity for UK-based medical students to gain insight into the critical field of global surgery and health. I decided to join the programme to…
Cycling from London to China is a huge task, what inspired you to undertake such a challenge? Simon and I met in London three years ago. One of my earliest memories, is him telling me he was cycling from London…
We’re excited to open recruitment to our 6-month Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Tanzania to start in February 2019. This is open to anaesthetic trainees (ST5 or above) or consultant anaesthetists (current or retired) keen…
The Lifebox-Students for Global Health scheme is about inspiring and leading medical students in educating others on the wider global surgery issues that may not be covered in their medical curriculums. As part of this, a group of reps from…
In the leading article of this month’s British Journal of Surgery, Dr Tom Weiser and Dr Alex Haynes, authors of the landmark Checklist pilot study, explore how this seemingly-simple piece of paper has been proven to reduce surgical…
The Checklist is at the heart of Lifebox’s work to make surgery and anaesthesia safer in low-resource settings – and while uptake and impact can be extremely challenging, the Checklist’s transformational role in the global safe surgery…
Hello everyone, This is my first blog as a student representative for Lifebox! How did I get involved with Lifebox – and why? My interest in global surgery and anaesthesia and…
“We wanted to bring information and knowledge to the world-wide readership of A&A about anesthesia issues in LMICs,” explained Dr Enright. “Many people would have no idea about the challenges nor about what is being done…
What kind of surgical safety challenges do colleagues and their patients face in low-resource settings? Being Iraqi-British and having lived and worked in Baghdad during the mid-nineties after the second Gulf War, when most…
