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.
Take, for instance, the recent collaboration between the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and the Mongolian Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) to deliver the…
“To make people count, we first need to be able to count people,” said then WHO Director General Lee Jong-Wook in 2003/last week on the excellent Guardian Global Development Professionals Network. If only ‘counting people’ was as…
It’s an impressive site, as a referral hospital for more than 2 million people needs to be. (c) Haydom Lutheran Hospital – https://haydom.or.tz/ But you don’t travel all this way just to…
How do you get from Glasgow to London? This September, leading paediatric ENT surgeons are crossing the country the hard way. They’re putting down the scalpel and swapping scrubs for lycra, cycling hundreds of miles over hill and dale and…
Our work to implement the Surgical Safety Checklist in Rwanda was featured by BBC News this week.
Gymnastics in service of illustrating a point (and charming the crowd) during his keynote speech at the Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Scientific Day in London last Friday, and he’s waving his arms enthusiastically.
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Safe surgery is a hit. We known from personal testimony that it saves lives, and from myriad studies that the numbers stand up to scrutiny – now it’s a rating smash too! Everyone’s talking about the recent BBC2 Horizon programme…
Your pulse oximeter was specially designed by experts at the World Health Organization and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. It is robust and easy to use, but very occasionally you may experience some basic issues with the device. We…
Bon jour! (The port approach is a lot wetter than starboard entrance) The MV Africa Mercy is the largest charitable hospital ship in the world, providing free surgical services (primarily facial reconstruction, benign…
