Lifebox’s Top Achievements of 2024
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
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Global Health Organizations Unite at the All Africa Anaesthesia Congress to Address Capnography Gap
A coalition of global health organizations have united to address a critical gap in anesthesia safety: the lack of capnography in low-resource settings, a situation that is putting countless lives at risk.
Capnography action letter
Global health organizations partner to urge health care systems globally, to include a capnograph as an essential anesthesia monitor for safer surgery in a capnography action letter.
Lifebox Interviews Partners on COVID-19: Dr. G.
Dr. G. is a consultant anesthesiologist in Assam, India. They spoke with Lifebox on 28 March 2020 on Assam’s and India’s preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic. “I am a consultant anesthesiologist in Sivasagar, Assam, India. I have been associated…
Lifebox Interviews Partners on COVID-19: Dr. Mary Nabukenya
Dr. Mary Nabukenya is lecturer at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, and works as an anesthesiologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. She has helped to lead many perioperative safety training courses for anesthesia providers throughout the country.
Lifebox Interviews Partners on COVID-19: Dr. Susane Nabulindo
Dr. Faye Evans is an anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. As a Lifebox board member and member of Smile Train’s Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Evans has worked with anesthesia providers all over the world on safety and training programs. On…
COVID-19: How are Surgical and Anesthesia Providers in Low-Resource Settings Responding?
We will post these interviews as quickly as we can to raise awareness about what partners face as they care for patients in already resource-constrained contexts. We are paying special attention to the work of anesthesia providers who in addition…
Lifebox and COVID-19
PREVIOUS UPDATES ON LIFEBOX’s COVID-19 RESPONSE: Update April 24: VIDEO: Watch a Virtual Grand Rounds: “Preparing the Perioperative Ecosystem of Sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19” Update April 15: Lifebox’s core objective is to improve the safety of surgery…
Welcoming Dr. Alex Haynes to Lifebox’s Board of Trustees
Lifebox: Why was it important at this time for Lifebox and Ariadne Labs to initiate Checking In On the Checklist? With the Checklist being over ten years old, what were you looking to achieve? Alex Haynes: Reflecting on ten…
2020 South University Chili Cook-Off Fundraiser for Lifebox
A sincere thank you to the students and faculty at South University for hosting another successful fundraiser for Lifebox! Our work is only possible because of our supporters – and around the world, lives are saved because of it. We…
“The Checklist is More Than a Sheet of Paper” — An interview with Dr. George Molina
Lifebox: Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions, Dr. Molina. Why was it important for Lifebox and Ariadne Labs to initiate a report like “Checking in on the Checklist” at this time? What did you hope to understand…
Lifebox in Francophone Africa
Long-time Lifebox champion, Dr. Chaibou of Niger helped out at the Lifebox stand at SARAF. The pulse oximeter gap in Francophone West Africa is high, and Lifebox has worked extensively with SARAF-member countries to address this gap by…
Blog: Dr. Isabeau Walker on SAFE OR workshops in India
Ten years since the launch of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, one of the significant benefits has been improved teamwork and communication in the operating room, so what better way to embed this than through multidisciplinary teamwork training? A few…
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