Getting capnography to the front lines
There is an urgent need to make capnography widely accessible in low- and middle-income countries through collaborative strategies to overcome barriers in funding, education, and distribution.
Find Lifebox resources for perioperative professionals - including publications, our online learning courses, and Lifebox workshop materials
There is an urgent need to make capnography widely accessible in low- and middle-income countries through collaborative strategies to overcome barriers in funding, education, and distribution.
Bridging the gap in life-saving anesthesia technology to ensure safer surgeries worldwide.
The Smile Train-Lifebox Capnography Project aims to close the capnography gap in low resource settings.
A groundbreaking study published in JAMA Network Open has revealed the significant impact of Clean Cut, a Lifebox program to strengthen perioperative care practices.
Although postoperative antibiotic prophylaxis has not been shown to prevent surgical site infections, prolonged antibiotic administration is common in low- and middle-income countries. We developed a quality improvement program to reduce unnecessary postoperative antibiotics.
Clean Cut results, published in JAMA Surgery, achieve a 34% relative risk reduction of surgical site infection
Published in the World Journal of Surgery, this article explores high-quality lighting constraints in surgical settings in low-resource contexts
Calling for a reframing of global surgery into a problem based on the annual number of additional operations needed and not performed - to use the same language as the rest of global health.
Creating trainings aids for improved surgical infection prevention in low-resource hospitals
This protocol describes the CheckList Expansion for Antisepsis and iNfection Control in Cesarean Section (CLEAN-CS) trial evaluating our program's ability to reduce infections following CS and other obstetric and gynecological operations in Ethiopia.