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Dr. Buowari talks to Lifebox on safe anesthesia in Nigeria and her work responding to COVID-19 and pulse oximetry.

Lifebox has distributed 33,400 pulse oximeters to healthcare providers alongside training to improve anesthesia safety worldwide

Celebrities may not read their reviews, but at Lifebox, we do.   Avidly. (Don’t you bet the celebrities do too?) We want to know what delegates found most useful – or not – about our workshops. We want to know how colleagues are doing this week with the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist at our pilot site in […]

Video guide on the appropriate use of pulse oximeters to monitor COVID-19 patients at home, and when to seek professional help in English, French, Spanish, and Hindi

Lifebox co-signs letter to the UK government highlighting the need for vaccine equity across the world.

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 […]

Kris is a former Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) International based in Switzerland where she led an extensive governance reform process, while ensuring coordination of all facets of MSF’s worldwide humanitarian operations. Following nearly fifteen years with MSF, including a field deployment as part of MSF’s Ebola response team in Liberia, […]

Students at SouthUniversity‘s anesthesiologist assistant programme raised more than $1000 for Lifebox last week, selling badges at the American Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants (AAAA) conference. “As AA students, we learn the importance of monitoring a patient’s blood-oxygen levels,” said AA student Claire Wainwright, one of the student leaders in the class of 2013. “When we […]

The 70,000 global pulse oximeter gap keeps us busy. Not a day goes by without a Lifebox oximeter winging its way across earth and sea and sky to anaesthesia providers in the most remote hospitals worldwide, delivering life-saving surgery without this life-saving equipment. But some days the skies are heavier than others! In October 2013, […]

In 2010 we sent him our first pulse oximeter. Lifebox wasn’t even Lifebox back then – it was the Global Pulse Oximetry Project, fresh from a worldwide tendering process led by WHO and the WFSA for an ideal monitor to thrive in low-resource settings. We were perched on a desk in a third floor room […]