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Join us for Capno Week

Move over Shark Week, Capno Week is here. Join us to close the global capnography gap so that every anesthesia provider, no matter where they work, are equipped with a capnograph.

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…

Lifebox, oximetry innovation and paediatric pneumonia

On World Pneumonia Day, we spoke to him about this critical work – and its potential to revolutionise diagnosis and treatment of an infection killing nearly a million children a year. A…

Francophone colleagues advocate for safer anaesthesia at SARANF

Every year, SARANF, aka the Societies of Anaesthesia of Francophone Africa, hosts an Annual Congress bringing together anaesthesia providers from across the region to share local expertise and experiences in advancing anaesthesia capacity. Lifebox has a long…

Putting in the miles for safer anaesthesia

An avid cyclist and the first Indian to win the world’s toughest endurance race, he’s the president of the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA) Maharashtra chapter and an associate professor at NDMVP Medical College, Nashik. Happily…

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