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So it was a nice collaboration when Gradian Health Systems, a not-for-profit provider of anaesthesia machines for low-resource settings, recently bought 20 Lifebox pulse oximeters for each of its UAM machines, currently in facilities across…
We talk about the pulse oximetry gap so often that it’s easy to forget what a shocking statistic it really is. Anaesthesia without pulse oximetry monitoring is incredibly dangerous, and lives…
All the way from Georgia, U.S.A. without further ado: “Lifebox Africa” is an Anesthesiologist Assistant (AA) student-led initiative that made local news recently after the South University students from the Savannah, GA campus raised…
That was certainly the case for CRNA Janet Dewan, chair of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Health and Wellness Committee, who first went to work in Niger in 1974. She recently donated an oximeter through…
A Liberian flag is hung at the entrance of the Sanniquellie Magisterial Court in Nimba County, Liberia.Photo ID 468148. 19/02/2011. Sanniquellie, Liberia. UN Photo/Staton Winter. But the civil wars of the 1980s and 90s wrecked lives…
Robert is the director of Diamedica, a manufacturer of anaesthesia equipment fit for purpose in low-resource settings. He recently returned from Chad, in central Africa, where he took a Lifebox pulse oximeter to leave…
Lifebox Trustee Angela Enright and Dr Aigeeleng are old friends – they like to catch up and pose for photos This isn’t quite as morbid as it sounds, but it’s certainly depressing. Harry is talking about equipment…
We’ve been typing circles round our to do lists at Lifebox since we got back from the WCA last month. We left Buenos Aires with heads, hearts, (stomachs) full of plans and opportunities for closing the global…
Monday morning we were happy to see our our old friend Dr Rebecca Jacob, newest president of the Indian Association of Pediatric Anesthesiologists, heading across the red carpet. She brought along the WFSA paediatric committee to say…
Taking the subte from Catedral to Plaza Italia in Buenos Aires this week is an insiders game of ‘I spy.’ With the band I see a blue laynard! we hiss, subtle as neon, hopping out…
