Lifebox’s Top Achievements of 2024
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
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Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
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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.
Tanzania: Lifebox Fellow provides graduating Nurse Anesthetists essential safety skills
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…
Meet Myles – Lifebox Safe Anesthesia Fellow in Tanzania
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…
Global Surgery and Anesthesia gain momentum at the World Health Assembly
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). …
Reducing Surgical Infections in Ethiopia
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 Value of the Checklist in Ethiopia: an interview with Dr Assefa Tesfaye
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 a little teamwork can make a tangible impact to patient safety
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…
Lifebox in Burundi – an oximeter for every hospital
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…
Lifebox’s lasting impact in Burkina Faso
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…
Anesthesia in Rural Burundi – an interview with Dynos Mugisha (L’anesthésie au Burundi – un entretien avec Dynos Mugisha)
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…
Lifebox launches Safe Surgery workshops in Central America
With a combined population of more than 36.5 million people, safe surgery within the four most populous countries in Central America – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua – is vital for a strong regional healthcare system. Lifebox has already…
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