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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 is certainly not afraid to ask. During last year’s appeal for Lifebox, we got some […]

Dr Andrew Hill – The outgoing Society President of ISS/SIC and World Congress of Surgery President 2019 – on WCS 2019 and supporting Lifebox   Dr Kathleen Casey Surgeon and Secretary, Executive Committee The G4 Alliance, outgoing President of the The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence   Dr Zipporah Gathuya, Anesthesiologist, The Nairobi Hospital, […]

But systems change means culture change, and culture change is hard. When it comes to effecting the global revolution in safety that the pilot study proved possible – a 40% reduction in complications and mortality – even the Checklist’s founding family admit there’s a long way to go. Luckily there’s also a lot of learning […]

Last summer in Ethiopia we launched our second step towards safer surgery worldwide: Clean Cut, a pilot programme funded by GE Foundation, targeting surgical site infection. Of course, that doesn’t mean our first step is done and dusted. We’ve got a long way to go towards closing the global pulse oximetry gap as part of […]

Full report: Checking In On the Checklist Press Release: English | Spanish | French ADDIS ABABA/BOSTON/LONDON/NEW YORK, JANUARY 15, 2020 – Global safe-surgery non-profit Lifebox and health system innovation center Ariadne Labs announce the release of the Checking In On the Checklist report. The report and an accompanying series of studies show the global uptake of the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical […]

Dr. Yifru on working where equipment is limited and the difference a capnograph makes for patients

The risk is high: an invisible threat to patients who’ve given everything they’ve got to get to a hospital, reversing the life-saving work of surgical teams striving to save them. Our Clean Cut programme, piloting in Ethiopia, aims to develop simple and scalable inventions that use training, monitoring and evaluation to make surgery safer. We […]

Dr. Renda Suleman on the transformation and immediate impact of capnography on patient care