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.
Safer anaesthesia in Papua New Guinea
One such partner is safe anaesthesia champion, Dr Arvin Karu from Papua New Guinea. He’s on mission, working with Lifebox: Australia and New Zealand, to equip every operating room and critical care ward across PNG with a…
Lifebox News – December Edition
Last month we… Ended the year with a word from Lifebox® Chair, Atul Gawande, on the magic of Lifebox. Find out how your contributions can help us make surgery and anaesthesia safer around the world.
Lifebox is hiring: Development Manager
Key relationships: Global CEO and Board; Development Advisory Council members; senior staff and external stakeholders Salary & benefits: Commensurate with experience + excellent benefits. INTRODUCTION Lifebox is a global non-profit organization registered in the United States and the…
Partnerships in PNG
Michael is a senior anaesthetist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and St George Hospital, Kogarah, in Sydney. He’s also Chair of the Overseas Aid Committee for ANZCA, serves on the Overseas Development and Education Committee in…
Lifebox News – August Edition
Last month we… Launched our Global Impact Map – with 15,000 oximeters distributed and more than 100 training workshops delivered across six continents, you can see exactly where Lifebox is making a lifesaving difference.
Maternal health: a Kenyan journalist’s perspective
Namukabo Werungah is a health and science reporter from Nairobi with a passion for maternal health. We spoke to her at the recent General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA), following a side…
The Checklist Effect at Emory
Student groups who see global surgery in their future, OR teams curious to see how hospitals around the world are introducing the WHO Checklist, armchair travellers ready to rove from Uganda to Mongolia –…
A day in the life of Dr Patange
“I leave home early in the morning for surgery. I prefer using my bike to counter traffic jams and parking issues at the hospital. And as always, I take my bag with all my anaesthesia instruments with me – including…
The future of safer surgery and anaesthesia
You’re an active member of the InciSioN advocacy team, and the student global surgery movement. Why is it important for doctors of the future to be involved? Global surgery to me means improving timely access to…
The Professor who put an oximeter on the Checklist
Decades earlier, Professor Soyannwo’s son was born by emergency C-section, without oxygen monitoring. His brain was deprived of oxygen, and helives now with the long-term effects of prolonged hypoxia. Pulse oximetry monitoring could have changed his life. And…
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