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 2022 milestones: A year in review making surgery and anesthesia safer in 2022
“Your donation held us in good stead during the daunting struggle with COVID-19.” The impact of a donation of pulse oximeters to Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (BMH) in Tanzania during the peak of the pandemic.
Lifebox is delighted to announce the appointment of Andreu Maldonado to its Global Governance Council. Andreu has extensive experience in nonprofit finance, management, and operations and currently serves as Deputy to the Secretary General of…
Anesthesia provider, William Baraka, on patient safety and pulse oximetry in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact of a Lifebox pulse oximeter
Professor Zoumenous tells us that today, no operation takes place in Benin without a pulse oximeter, and this is thanks to Lifebox.
My name is Belinda Karimi and I am a clinical nurse at the Agakhan Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, and a trainer for the Team CLEFT workshop – a professional working group of multidisciplinary health professionals, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, and…
Team CLEFT is a new workshop by Smile Train and Lifbox designed for nurses, anesthesia providers and surgeons which supports Cleft teams to learn together.
leading anesthesia providers from across the world shared their experiences on issues relating to pulse oximetry impact in anesthesia care, remaining gaps in oximetry access and identified priorities for safe anesthesia care going forward – including the issue of pulse oximetry accuracy in darker skin tones.
A Smile Train-Lifebox report on pulse oximetry access and impact in low- and middle-income countries
Today we launch the Lifebox-Smile Train pulse oximeter with our long-standing partner Smile Train to scale up access to pulse oximetry for anesthesia and critical care. Pulse oximeters rapidly measure the oxygen level of the blood…
