Lifebox’s Top Achievements of 2024
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
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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.
Nos collègues francophones préconisent le renforcement de la sécurité en anesthésie durant le 33e congrès de la SARANF
Nous sommes donc très heureux d’avoir pu animer un débat d’idée durant le 33e congrès de la Société d’Anesthésie Réanimation de l’Afrique Noire Francophone (SARANF) à Libreville, Gabon autour du thème “Travailler avec Lifebox pour le renforcement de la sécurité…
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…
Lifebox at THET Conference 2017
No better example than our WHO Surgical Safety Checklist implementation work in Tanzania, presented this week at the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET)’s Annual Conference. When it comes to fostering health partnerships, THET…
Ukrainian colleagues lead the way for safer anaesthesia
Many thanks to safe anaesthesia champion Dr Kateryna Belka, who helped organise a Lifebox stand for the congress exhibition, delivered a pulse oximetry workshop, and hosted a screening of The Checklist Effect. We caught up with her…
Clean Cut shows results in SSI reduction
From a 180% improvement in the use of appropriate hand hygiene to a 92% improvement in the proper timing of prophylactic antibiotics, Clean Cut’s potential to prevent life-threatening infections is evident – and urgent. Post-operative infection is one…
Calling all students: take the lead in global surgery at your university
Offering students with a passion for global surgery opportunities to engage and lead in this critical and emerging field. Through hosting and attending events, spreading the word on campus and raising funds to support Lifebox’s safer surgery work around the…
Meet Violeta!
With extensive international experience and being fluent in English, French and Spanish, Violeta is well placed to support Lifebox’s global reach. So we couldn’t wait to learn more… What interested you about Lifebox as an organization and as a…
Lifebox at SFAR 2017
Lifebox has a long history of working with partners across the Francophone world, most recently in Burkina Faso to Guinea and Niger. Local leadership, expertise – and of course a common…
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