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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.

Education made beautiful!

We spoke to designer Brenda Roberts Costa, who runs digital creative agency Synchroma, about her experience bringing the Lifebox oximeter ‘how to’ to life. The video needed to translate technical concepts into simple…

How to use the Lifebox pulse oximeter

Education is a key component of Lifebox’s work, because we know that equipment alone isn’t the solution – lives are saved by the team that knows how to use it. So our materials are designed to help in-country and visiting healthcare providers get the…

Congratulations – and thanks! – ASA

A longstanding champion of Lifebox’s work in the Western Pacific, we’re honoured to have been part of their National Scientific Congress Gala Dinner. And, thanks to the auction of a diamond pendant to mark their jubilee, very grateful for the incredible contribution…

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From our recent visit to the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa’s (COSECSA) AGM and Scientific Conference in Kenya – with oximeter donation, consultation and premiere of our new surgical instruments video – to…

#SaferSurgerySouthSudan

Access to safe surgery is essential for reducing maternal mortality – but as in many low-resource countries, surgery and anaesthesia can all too often become unsafe. So we teamed up with International Medical Corps (IMC) earlier this year to support anaesthesia providers…

A Presidential COSECSA conversation

The risk is high: an invisible threat to patients who’ve given everything they’ve got to get to a hospital, reversing the life-saving work of surgical teams striving to save them. Our Clean Cut programme, piloting in Ethiopia, aims to develop…

The young advocate

What has it been like, shifting from student to junior doctor? I remember the first time I did a Caesarean section by myself.  I walked in and paused at the door – because obviously I’d assisted, but I had now…

Lifebox News – November edition

Last month we… Premiered our documentary, The Checklist Effect, on the big screen at the Barbican as part of the Global Health Film Festival! Launched LifeboxSquared, a fundraising…

Safer anaesthesia from Hong Kong to Haiti

We met one such organisation recently at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA). Citizens of the World Foundation is a charity that works to support anaesthesia providers at Justinian University Hospital in Haiti,…

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