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Riddle me this:
What do you call an operation that saves two lives at once? A caesarean section. No need to be witty when you’re one of the greatest surgical priorities for healthcare in low-resource settings. An emergency c-section is the most common…
Togo
When you hear people talking about the devastating rates of anaesthesia mortality in low-resource settings – as high as 1 in 133 – they’re talking about Fataou’s paper. Published in Tropical Doctor in 2005, it showed just how dangerous surgery…
2012 annual review
It’s hard to believe 2012 is almost over! For Lifebox this has been a year of enormous excitement and fast developments; the year we distributed our 4000th oximeter and supported 2000 colleagues to receive training in safer surgery and anaesthesia.
Serious questions and serious answers – #BMJLifebox week two
The best thing about introductions are the questions you get back in return – after all, the surgical safety crisis is going to improve through dialogue, not monologue! – and when they have a question, the readership of the British Medical Journal…
Hot off the press
If you’ve seen our excitement on Facebook or watched us struggle to contain our characters on Twitter, you’ll know that we’ve got some big news to share. Our colleagues in Papua New…
WHO pilot study proves impact of Checklist and oximetry in low-resource settings
Lifebox improves the quality and safety of surgical care in low-resource settings through the provision of pulse oximeters and training in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. While the impact of the Checklist to reduce surgical morbidity and mortality has been…
BMJ Holiday Appeal – 2012!
We are thrilled to announce that Lifebox has been selected as the British Medical Journal’s holiday charity of 2012. Following the enormous success of last year‘s appeal, which raised more than £30,000…
A Long Term Relationship
It started with this photo: October 2011: Dr Jerry Cohen, ASA president elect and University of Florida associate professor, presents Lifebox chairman Atul Gawande with a GIANT CHEQUE. Actually that’s not true. It started with…
I’ll take you there
This is the road leading up to the Outpatient Department at Bungoma District Hospital, in Western Kenya, not far from the border with Uganda: And this is the queue of patients trying to…
London volunteer opportunity
The role We are looking for a committed volunteer to take on a number of administrative projects within Lifebox Foundation HQ in London. Ideally this would involve one full day or two half day’s commitment each week for a minimum…
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