Pioneer: “a person who is among the first to research and develop a new area of knowledge or activity.” This definition stood out as we received the news that Dr Takuo Aoyagi, a Senior Manager at Nihon Kohden, was recently honoured for pioneering services to pulse oximetry. Photo credit: Engineering and Technology History Wiki True, […]
Lifebox has a long history of working with colleagues across Tanzania: from supporting anaesthesia providers with essential equipment to collaborating with international and local partners such as the Society of Anaesthesiologists of Tanzania (SATA) in delivering training workshops. So we are delighted to share the interview below with German doctor, Daniela Kietzmann who works as […]
The Lifebox Foundation, a global charity working to improve the safety of surgical care in low-resource settings, today welcomed the spotlight on the issue of environment-inappropriate medical equipment and restated its commitment to appropriate, effective technology. As a report released by the Technologies for Global Health Commission last week shows, much of the medical equipment […]
Here we learn more about his mission – “safe anaesthesia equals safer surgery.” Can you talk about some of the challenges that anaesthesia providers face in delivering safe surgical care in your region? If you see today’s newspaper in India you will find a story: “Death of 36 children because of lack of oxygen in […]
Although the Lifebox mission is to ensure that all operating rooms have access to a pulse oximeter, we know that they can play a lifesaving role outside of surgery. The boy, 16 months old and unconscious, was lying limp on the floor of the children’s ward at the Martha Primary Health Care Centre, spooned […]
PREVIOUS UPDATES ON LIFEBOX’s COVID-19 RESPONSE: Update April 24: VIDEO: Watch a Virtual Grand Rounds: “Preparing the Perioperative Ecosystem of Sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19” Update April 15: Lifebox’s core objective is to improve the safety of surgery and anesthesia in low and middle-income countries. The healthcare workers we work with everyday are now on the […]
Lifebox is celebrating ten – plus one – years of saving lives through safer surgery. As we mark more than a decade of making surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide, we wanted to share the milestones that we have achieved, together, so far. Thank you to every one of you who has been part of the […]
3 June 2020: Pulse Oximeters and Oxygen Therapy in the time of COVID-19 Join Lifebox, the Alliance for International Medical Action, and Assist International for a Virtual Grand Rounds chaired by Dr. Thomas Weiser on using pulse oximeters and oxygen therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lifebox welcomes industry support to the ESA Lifebox Campaign: Masimo and Teleflex make a generous contribution and a clear commitment to safer anaesthesia for all Safe anaesthesia is fundamental to safe surgery – but a global gap in access to pulse oximetry puts safe anaesthesia and surgery out of reach for millions worldwide. The European […]
NEW YORK – July 11, 2022 – Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft organization, today launches a new venture with Lifebox, the global nonprofit organization that makes surgery safer in low-resource settings, to distribute 11,000 pulse oximeters to 20 countries. This distribution, a key milestone of the Smile Train-Lifebox Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative, will […]
