Vanderbilting bridges: Tennessee to Kenya
Watch the video on the VIA home page, which focuses on Vanderbilt’s relationship with the Kijabe Hospital, in Kenya. Panning down crowded hospital corridors, the images are stark and the voices are shocked.
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Never a day at the beach
The Togolese Republic stretches narrowly north 600 km into West Africa, with Burkina Faso at its head and the Bight of Benin swirling at its feet in the capital city of Lomé. But it’s never a day at the beach…
Just so splendid
Lifebox sent an oximeter and the hospital found funding to buy some additional units. But Benson told us some very difficult stories about his anaesthesia practice, and we knew that these few units wouldn’t…
Challenge Accepted!
When we first heard about the Boston Lifebox Challenge earlier this year, we knew better than to get caught in the crossfire! We watched as ideas, enthusiasm and events ricocheted across the city, and are thrilled to duck…
A bad day and a good day
You might know (because we told you. A couple of times. We told quite a few people) that back in February, Lifebox was in the Solomon Star, the leading newspaper of the Solomon Islands. Thanks…
Filling the vacuum
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of childhood death worldwide. What does that have to do with safe surgery? Nothing explicitly. But pulse oximetry monitoring is essential for oxygen therapy, a basic pneumonia treatment – and if there aren’t…
A favourite Lifebox story…
…begins once upon a time late summer of last year, at a hospital in Nigeria, when a very dynamic doctor placed an order to purchase 75 pulse oximeters and 75 spare probes. And this is what happened next.
A Nice Complement
So it was a nice collaboration when Gradian Health Systems, a not-for-profit provider of anaesthesia machines for low-resource settings, recently bought 20 Lifebox pulse oximeters for each of its UAM machines, currently in facilities across…
Comment voulez-vous…
We talk about the pulse oximetry gap so often that it’s easy to forget what a shocking statistic it really is. Anaesthesia without pulse oximetry monitoring is incredibly dangerous, and lives…
“Lifebox Africa”: an AA-wesome Effort by South University Students!
All the way from Georgia, U.S.A. without further ado: “Lifebox Africa” is an Anesthesiologist Assistant (AA) student-led initiative that made local news recently after the South University students from the Savannah, GA campus raised…
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