The invisible thread
I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, specifically in Bulawayo the second largest city in the country affectionately known as ‘The City of Kings.’ For half my life I lived in this beautiful city, with its wide roads, tree lined…
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Safe Surgery in the Steppes
“It was a picture of a caesarean section, carried out by torchlight in a Mongolian ger using a Lifebox pulse oximeter, that got me, a London-based freelance journalist, a commission to spend a week in that country in October last…
Meet the man behind Lifeboxes for Rio
(c) Joseph Galvin ASSOC RP Inspired by his time as a Gamesmaker at the London 2012 Summer Olympics, he came into office with an ambitious idea: raise enough money to send 600 pulse oximeters to hospitals in…
Uganda, safer anaesthesia – student experience
My name is Emma Spencer and I’m a final year medical student at the University of Bristol in the UK. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend a month last year at Kitovu Hospital in…
The young advocate
What has it been like, shifting from student to junior doctor? I remember the first time I did a Caesarean section by myself. I walked in and paused at the door – because obviously I’d assisted, but I had now…
World Pneumonia Day 2016
To mark World Pneumonia Day on 12 November we’re delighted to share an interview with consultant anaesthetist and Lifebox Research Fellow, Dr Nick Boyd, who is part of a team working to enhance the Lifebox oximeter and neonatal probe…
Lifebox at AidEx
Event Director and Founder, Nicholas Rutherford tells us more about this innovative event below. What is the concept behind AidEx, and why was the conference launched six years ago? AidEx was launched in 2011 to help the international…
Meet Dr Alexander Hannenberg
What does the Ellison Pierce lecture mean to you, and what will you be speaking about? The Ellison Pierce lecture is not only an opportunity for me to recognize one of my mentors and giants in anesthesia safety but to…
Ruth Tighe, Lifebox Fellow 2016
Although your Lifebox Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre is just beginning, you could say your relationship with the hospital goes way back… Yes – it came about in a strange way! I read about KCMC when I was 16. …
Ben Parsons, Lifebox Fellow 2016
What was your first experience of anesthesia in a low-resource setting? I spent two months in the Solomon Islands, at the end of medical school. It was totally eye-opening because I’d done all my training around the South East of…
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