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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.

Good questions!

As we look towards the future of Lifebox, we’re grateful to so many friends and partners helping us along the way. And we love it when they ask good questions! This month the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (…

Pulse oximeters for Burundi

American anaesthesiologist, Dr Gregory Sund is on a mission to help bring Lifebox pulse oximeters to every hospital in Burundi. We caught up with him recently and this is what we learned. What motivated you to support Lifebox? I was…

ASA Lifebox Challenge – ready, set, keep going!

We’re making it even easier for programmes to get involved, with an official starter kit. It’s packed with fundraising resources to help you on your way. Now in its fourth year, this amazing competition…

Lifebox in Europe

We’ve been working with the European Society of Anaesthesiology since 2012, raising funds and raising awareness. Funds that help us to deliver urgently-needed equipment and education – and awareness that critical safety challenges in the OR can be closer to…

Join us at the World Health Assembly

Well you can start by reading A70/38 section K, the report submitted by WHO’s secretariat. And then you can come talk to us! Lifebox is hosting an incredible panel event with our co-founders the World Federation of Societies…

Come work with Lifebox!

Excited to announce two new posts opening up this month, a Project Support Officer, and Project Manager. Click the links below to learn more, and please share widely. We’ve made surgery and anaesthesia safer for more than 10 million patients in…

Global Surgery Day

In 2016 we joined InciSioN, to celebrate Global Surgery Day – a campaign to spread the word about this critical and emerging field via social media. This year our friends at InciSioN upped the ante…

Lifebox News – April Edition

Last month we… Listened to our founder and chair Atul Gawande’s TED Talk in Vancouver (his last one was viewed more than 1.5 million times!) Joined obstetricians and gynaecologists at the Royal College of O&G World Congress in…

Oximeters keep beeping in Madagascar

We’ve been privileged to support incredible teams across the country since 2015, when we joined the world’s largest floating NGO hospital, Mercy Ships on a visit inland to deliver…

A report from Manchester MedX 2017

In March, I had the opportunity to help run a workshop for Lifebox at the student run MedX Conference in Manchester. The theme of the conference was the ‘Future of Healthcare’, a topic which inspires not only medics. With over…

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