Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
In 2007, I embarked on a transformative journey as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia, assigned to monitor and evaluate HIV/AIDS services for a government office. Little did I know that this seemingly random assignment would blossom into a 17-year…
At Lifebox, we recognize that safer surgery saves lives—and that women are a vital part of this mission. Women play a significant role in surgical teams worldwide, whether as surgeons and anesthesiologists performing life-saving procedures, or nurses providing essential…
Clean cut in Honduras
Lifebox congratulates Dr. Atul Gawande on his appointment to the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board.
Lifebox appoints Global Clinical Director and Head of Programs for East Africa FOR RELEASE – November 5th 2020, Global safe surgery and anesthesia non-profit Lifebox, appoints two new roles
Dr. Rediet Shimeles Workneh is an anesthesiologist at Ghandi Memorial hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is a true safe surgery champion, and a longtime friend of Lifebox. We recently caught up with Dr. Rediet about her Lifebox pulse oximeter,…
Dr. Giri describes to Lifebox the many ways that pulse oximeters are used. Normally, the pulse oximeters are used for anesthesia purposes. However, Dr. Giri told us that they have often proven vital for a certain group of patients: snake…
New study shows Lifebox’s Clean Cut reduces leading cause of mortality and morbidity Today, Lifebox announces significant results for reducing surgical site infections (SSIs) by nearly half in low-resource hospital systems. A new study published in the British Journal of Surgery reports the results of Clean Cut – a Lifebox program that engages surgical teams to address the causes of SSIs.
As part of our response to COVID-19, Lifebox is supporting innovations to improve the safety of healthcare workers and patients during the pandemic.
Dr. Geraldina Gross is Head of Anesthesia at the largest hospital in Honduras. Dr. Gross is working closely with Lifebox to strengthen surgery and anesthesia safety in Central America with support from the IZUMI Foundation. Her hospital received a pulse…
“My lifesaving oximeter helps me to fight COVID-19,” Dr. Christian Masudi of the University Clinics in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) told us.
Lifebox strongly condemns the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many other black and brown people by law enforcement in the United States. We support the Black Lives Matter movement and its goals of combating racism in all forms in the US and globally.
“Suddenly you realize it’s here like a tsunami overwhelming everybody.” Preparing for COVID-19 in HondurasDr. Carolina Haylock Loor is an Anesthesiologist and Intensive Care and Interventional Pain Physician from Honduras, and a Council Member of the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists.
