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.
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,…
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…
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