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October 23, 2025 – In a new chapter for global surgical safety, Lifebox, the global safer surgery and anesthesia nonprofit, elected two leading voices in global health, Professor Thomas G. Weiser and…
We are excited to share that Lifebox’s work has been featured in the latest edition of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) Bulletin. The article shines a powerful light on the strength and resilience of surgical…
Clean cut in Honduras
DONATE HERE Anaesthetists London-Dublin ride funds safer surgery Eight anaesthetists from across Great Britain arrived in Dublin today (17 Sept 2013) by bike,…
The Lifebox oximeter meets USA Food and Drug Administration standards for accuracy, extensive tests show. “Accuracy of the Lifebox pulse oximeter during hypoxia in healthy volunteers,” published this month in the medical journal Anaesthesia, finds that the…
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…
