And here we are! Delighted to announce that Lifebox is returning to the Windy City for ANESTHESIOLOGY 2016 later this month. We’ve been around the world and back (several times!) since our last visit, with safer anaesthesia workshops in more than 100 countries, and 10 million patient lives made safer through our programmes. American Society of Anesthesiologists […]
Back in the late 1990s, an Ethiopian doctor was working with a Norwegian institution to fund a plastic surgery unit at his hospital. When he wanted to speak to them by phone, he’d stay at his mother’s house to use the landline. When they needed to email him he’d go to the university library, ask […]
As Lifebox chairman, surgeon, author and casual time traveler Atul Gawande (bodily in Boston and telegenically in London) explained by video, “the global health landscape is changing. For the first time in history, you’re more likely to be killed by a surgically-treatable condition than a communicable disease.” The struggle to activate a response to this […]
The first ever global guidelines focused exclusively on the prevention of surgical site infection were published by the World Health Organization on 3 November 2016. Designed to address the increasing burden of healthcare-associated infections on both patients and systems globally, the guidelines include 29 concrete recommendations distilled from 26 reviews of the latest evidence, by 20 of […]
So we were predisposed to like Rotary, and that’s before you factor in the amazing work they’ve been helping us with over the last year! As we wrote in the April issue of Rotary Today (you can read a copy here), Rotarians around the world from Yorkshire to Benin have been rolling up their sleeves to help us make surgery […]
Lifebox is excited to announce that on the occasion of the 23rd COSECSA Scientific Conference, we will be holding a “Driving Surgical Safety Forward: Highlights from the Lifebox Clean Cut Initiative” workshop,
Last month we… Joined President Barack Obama for a conversation about the future of medicine (well – sort of. Our co-founder and chair, Atul Gawande did!) Went back to Chicago for our sixth ANESTHESIOLOGY conference with the American Society of Anesthesiologists Celebrated World Anaesthesia Day (16 October) by supporting an important campaign by our co-founders […]
If you can’t get to hospital, you can’t get an emergency caesarian section, or life-saving surgery after a road traffic accident. If supplies or engineers can’t reach the hospital, drugs will run out and equipment will break. Healthcare providers are forced to make terrible choices between treatment and unsafe care: “I am a junior anesthesiology […]
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Lifebox honorary clinical advisor Dr Edward Fitzgerald sat down with AORN’s Periop Insider about the project he’s leading with Dr Mahmood Bhutta, (BMA Fair Medical Trade): “We see a virtual graveyard of rusted and broken instruments at these hospitals,” Fitzgerald explains. He says part of the problem is that these hospitals have no choice but to purchase more […]
