What global surgery experience did you have before starting your Lifebox Fellowship? At the end of my medical school training I wanted to see what surgery was like elsewhere – my experience had only been in the United States. I spent time at a couple hospitals in Nepal, which was incredibly eye-opening. I took call […]
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 England. Suddenly here I was on a tropical island, very little in the way of […]
From a 180% improvement in the use of appropriate hand hygiene to a 92% improvement in the proper timing of prophylactic antibiotics, Clean Cut’s potential to prevent life-threatening infections is evident – and urgent. Post-operative infection is one of the most brutal risks surgical patients and providers face, especially in low-resource settings where rates are […]
Throughout her career she’s worked tirelessly to provide safer anaesthesia care for patients in her community, and to support colleagues at Black Lion Hospital through delivering essential training. And she’s just getting started… Why did you choose to become an anaesthetist? I didn’t choose to be an anaesthetist – I didn’t want to be! I […]
A dozen countries and hundreds of meetings later, I am more enthusiastic than ever about Lifebox’s work and the global movement in safe surgery and anesthesia that we are part of. As I reflect on the past year and kick off a regular blog feature for our website, I wanted to highlight five of the […]
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 […]
In this month’s leading article on surgical innovation from JAMA Surgery, Lifebox Special Advisor and former trustee Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH, along with former Ethiopia Safe Surgery Fellow Jared Forrester, MD and our Global CEO Kris Torgeson, MSc, MPhil, delved deeper into the specifications for a suitable headlamp to help close the lighting gap. 80% of […]
Team CLEFT is a new workshop by Smile Train and Lifbox designed for nurses, anesthesia providers and surgeons which supports Cleft teams to learn together.
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
Improving anesthesia safety by equipping anesthesia providers with Smile Train-Lifebox Capnographs: A high quality, affordable capnograph suited for use in low-resource setting operating rooms
