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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.
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Lifebox in the red
Lifebox investors (aka incredible donors) aren’t looking for financial returns. They know our currency is safer surgery and anaesthesia, and that we measure ourselves against a different gold standard. How many pulse oximeters have we distributed this year? How…
Lara Herbert, Lifebox Fellow 2016
What motivated you to apply for the Lifebox Fellowship? Working in a low-resource setting has been a long-standing ambition of mine, but I wanted to ensure I had the technical skills, maturity and support to deal with the complex challenges…
World Pneumonia Day 2016
To mark World Pneumonia Day on 12 November we’re delighted to share an interview with consultant anaesthetist and Lifebox Research Fellow, Dr Nick Boyd, who is part of a team working to enhance the Lifebox oximeter and neonatal probe…
Lifebox at AidEx
Event Director and Founder, Nicholas Rutherford tells us more about this innovative event below. What is the concept behind AidEx, and why was the conference launched six years ago? AidEx was launched in 2011 to help the international…
A bad day for Surgical Site Infections
The first ever global guidelines focused exclusively on the prevention of surgical site infection were published by the World Health Organization on 3 November 2016. Designed to address the increasing burden of healthcare-associated infections on both patients and systems…
Lifebox News – October edition
Last month we… Joined President Barack Obama for a conversation about the future of medicine (well – sort of. Our co-founder and chair, Atul Gawande did!) Went back to Chicago for our…
And So It Begins: Lifebox in India
Access to healthcare is limited by a lack of resources and staff with only 0.7 physicians and 1.1 nurses per 1,000 population. Of its 15,500 operating rooms, over 7,000 lack pulse oximetry – leaving millions of people to undergo surgery…
The Checklist Effect on the big screen!
Join us in London for the U.K. premiere of this important film, inspired by Lifebox founder, surgeon and author Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto. The Global Health Film initiative is a partnership between the Royal…
Meet Dr Alexander Hannenberg
What does the Ellison Pierce lecture mean to you, and what will you be speaking about? The Ellison Pierce lecture is not only an opportunity for me to recognize one of my mentors and giants in anesthesia safety but to…
Lifebox train-the-trainers course, London
Can you join us? Earlier this year we were privileged to receive a three-year grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to help spearhead our work into India, where the safe surgery crisis is acute. We’ll be delivering…
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