COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist Workshop
A multidisciplinary workshop for surgical teams to reduce the risk of infection through use of the COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist
Resources
Find Lifebox resources for perioperative professionals - including publications, our online learning courses, and Lifebox workshop materials
Safe OR Course
A multi-disciplinary and highly interactive course on the essentials of safe surgical care, emphasizing the importance of human factors and non-technical skills in surgery
Prevención y control de infecciones perioperatorias: módulos de autoaprendizaje
Estos módulos se centran en los protocolos a seguir para seis prácticas clave de prevención y control de infecciones perioperatorias.
Perioperative Infection Prevention and Control: self-learning modules
These modules focus on the protocols to follow for six key perioperative infection prevention and control practices.
Clean and Confident: Impact of Sterile Instrument Processing Workshops on Knowledge and Confidence in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This study examines participants' knowledge and confidence post-TOT workshop, and moreover discusses subsequent non-Training of Trainers (TOT) workshops and observed sterile processing practices.
Operating room efficiency in a low resource setting: a pilot study from a large tertiary referral center in Ethiopia
This study found a high cancellation rate, most attributable to late start times leading to delays for the remainder of cases, and lack of preoperative patient preparation.
Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Program at Hospitals in Ethiopia
The results of the lasting impact of Lifebox’s surgical infection reduction program - Clean Cut - in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery.
Addressing quality in surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa: hospital context and data standardization matter
Like politics, all quality improvement is local, so a deep understanding of local context and circumstances is essential.
Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention program) for low-resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study
This study showed that Lifebox's Clean Cut program improved infection prevention standards to reduce SSI without infrastructure expenses or resource investments.
The Lifebox Surgical Headlight Project: engineering, testing, and field assessment in a resource-constrained setting
No device satisfied all the predetermined specifications, and large price discrepancies were critical factors leading surgeons’ choices.
