Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
At Lifebox, we recognize that safer surgery saves lives—and that women are a vital part of this mission. Women play a significant role in surgical teams worldwide, whether as surgeons and anesthesiologists performing life-saving procedures, or nurses providing essential…
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
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.
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 works with in-country and international volunteers around the world to make our work possible. Daniela Rebollo Salazar, a student at New York University’s (NYU) medical school, has just returned from Ethiopia, where she carried out…
With a population of over 60 million people, Tanzania is one of the largest countries in East Africa and has one of the lowest rates of anesthesia providers in the world. A dearth of trained clinicians, coupled with…
Tell us a bit about yourself – what’s your background? Myles leads a simulation at the workshop at KCMC. ©Lifebox 2019 I am a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway and after training…
As in previous years, I had the privilege of representing Lifebox at the WHA as a member of the delegation sent by our founding partner, the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). …
Ethiopia has one of the lowest measured rates of surgery in the world. As a result, surgical teams face a number of challenges on a daily basis, which can put patients at risk. In 2016,…
The Clean Cut program encourages teamwork from all hospital personnel, how do you fit in to this? Ever since the beginning of the program, I have been assisting with data collection, analysis, and the presentation of our results…
How I came to be involved in Clean Cut I arrived on the ground in Ethiopia with Lifebox last summer to a program that was clicking and running in full force. The Clean Cut program, with support from the…
We kicked off our safer surgery work in Burundi in partnership with ATSARPS (Agora des Techniciens Supérieurs Anesthésistes Réanimateurs pour la Promotion de la Santé), the Burundian anesthesia society, to organize a pulse oximetry training workshop in Bujumbura, at…
Dr Angela Enright (seated center), with the Burkina Faso faculty for the 2013 workshop. 1) A Friend in Need details the impact of Lifebox training in Burkina Faso. How did the participants respond to the workshops in…
Dynos, at Natwe Turashoboye de Karusu hospital in Burundi, 2019 EN – Tell us about the anesthesia situation in your country. FR – Pouvez vous nous décrire la situation de l’anesthésie dans votre pays. The…
