As we end the week that we have marked World patient safety day, it is essential to draw attention to the life-saving role of capnography in ensuring safe anesthesia practices in operating rooms around the world. Without this vital monitoring tool, anesthesia providers are effectively “flying blind”—a dangerous reality for millions of patients in low-resource […]
Lifebox has a small, dynamic global team, that works with our network of partner clinicians to make surgery and anesthesia safer across the world.
Lifebox Australia and New Zealand (Lifebox ANZ) is a consortium of partners working to strengthen anaesthesia and surgical safety in the Asia-Pacific region.
Lifebox congratulates its Chair and Co-Founder – Dr. Atul Gawande – on his confirmation today as the Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Lifebox looks at our top milestones from 2021 making surgery and anesthesia safer through tools, training, and partnerships.
Dr. Atul Gawande Co-founded Lifebox and served as Chair of the organization for its first ten years. As Chair, he oversaw Lifebox’s global work to improve the safety of surgery and anesthesia worldwide.
My name is Belinda Karimi and I am a clinical nurse at the Agakhan Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, and a trainer for the Team CLEFT workshop – a professional working group of multidisciplinary health professionals, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses. I didn’t always want to be a nurse. I had early aspirations in journalism, but […]
“Your donation held us in good stead during the daunting struggle with COVID-19.” The impact of a donation of pulse oximeters to Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (BMH) in Tanzania during the peak of the pandemic.
Clean cut in Honduras
