Dr Surajit Giri has a special place in Lifebox’s heart. His facility – Demow Community Health Centre – was the first to receive a Lifebox pulse oximeter as part of our grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. He also single-handedly organised the first ever Lifebox workshop in India. And with his mantra of “Safe anaesthesia, […]
American anaesthesiologist, Dr Gregory Sund is on a mission to help bring Lifebox pulse oximeters to every hospital in Burundi. We caught up with him recently and this is what we learned. What motivated you to support Lifebox? I was motivated to support Lifebox because I was able to see first-hand the massive importance of […]
Looking back on last year, it really seems like Lifebox was set up and three minutes later Laura Peltola called the office and said that she and her boyfriend, Andrew Moulds, wanted to do a fundraising campaign to buy oximeters for the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. It was very exciting. The Peltola/Moulds […]
Lifebox has distributed 35,000 pulse oximeters to healthcare providers alongside training to improve anesthesia safety worldwide
Today we launch the Lifebox-Smile Train pulse oximeter with our long-standing partner Smile Train to scale up access to pulse oximetry for anesthesia and critical care. Pulse oximeters rapidly measure the oxygen level of the blood and are essential for patient monitoring during anesthesia and in intensive care. This easy-to-use device is the only piece […]
A Smile Train-Lifebox report on pulse oximetry access and impact in low- and middle-income countries
Anesthesia provider, William Baraka, on patient safety and pulse oximetry in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact of a Lifebox pulse oximeter
Dr. Renda Suleman on the transformation and immediate impact of capnography on patient care
Lifebox footprints of progress for safer surgery and anesthesia in 2023
Dr. Othin explains why every operating room in Uganda needs to be equipped with capnography.
