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.
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…
From med student to lead author
But how do you find yourself lead author on the latest research to prove it so? Lifebox spoke with Dr Vanessa Albert, junior doctor (and medical student at the time of research) about her experiences bridging implementation and academia.
Published impact in Malawi
Lifebox pulse oximeter implementation in Malawi: evaluation of educational outcomes and impact on oxygen desaturation episodes during anaesthesia followed up a donation of 86 Lifebox pulse oximeters to anaesthesia providers in Malawi. Beyond showing a sustained…
ESA and Lifebox in Europe
Since 2012 at Euroanaesthesia in Paris, the generosity and commitment of ESA members and membership societies has helped to support thousands of safer surgeries through Lifebox’s equipment and training projects – across and beyond the continent. But…
Lifebox in Kenya
Kenya is a beautiful country in East Africa, best known for its wonderful game reserves and spectacular annual migrations in the Maasai Mara. However, scratch beneath the surface, and there is much of concern. Kenya ranks 145th on the UN…
Lifebox in India
With generous funding from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Lifebox has a three year-grant to develop its oximetry programmes across India. With a population of 1.3 billion and a landscape that ranges from the mighty peaks of the Himalayas to the…
Lifebox News – March Edition
Last month we… Honored the importance of global surgery stories as we witnessed the Checklist Effect receive its fourth award at the Global Cinema Film Festival in Boston Celebrated International Women’s Day by sharing perspectives of our inspiring…
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