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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.

Six times safer in Zambia

And thanks to a longstanding relationship with the Zambian Ministry of Health, Lifebox co-founder the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) and the Zambian Anaesthesia Development Project through the Tropical Health and Education Trust (…

Ruth Tighe, Lifebox Fellow 2016

Although your Lifebox Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre is just beginning, you could say your relationship with the hospital goes way back… Yes – it came about in a strange way!  I read about KCMC when I was 16. …

Ben Parsons, Lifebox Fellow 2016

What was your first experience of anesthesia in a low-resource setting? I spent two months in the Solomon Islands, at the end of medical school. It was totally eye-opening because I’d done all my training around the South East of…

Jared Forrester, Lifebox Fellow 2016

What global surgery experience did you have before starting your Lifebox Fellowship? At the end of my medical school training I wanted to see what surgery was like elsewhere – my experience had only been in the United States. I…

Nick Owen – Ethiopia Fellow 2015

Month 1: Before I get started, let me introduce myself. I’m Nick (on the right) the Lifebox Fellow: AKA an ST6 Anaesthetic Trainee in The Central London School of Anaesthesia (TCLSA) undertaking an Out of Programme Experience (OOPE) in the…

Back to Chicago for ANESTHESIOLOGY 2016

And here we are! Delighted to announce that Lifebox is returning to the Windy City for ANESTHESIOLOGY 2016 later this month. We’ve been around the world and back (several times!) since our last visit, with safer…

Lifebox News – September edition

Last month we… Returned to the international anaesthesia stage, with a consultation, education sessions, and our founder and chair Atul Gawande giving the keynote address at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists in Hong Kong…

Global surgery at the UN

At Lifebox we’re proud to be part of the history of safer surgery and anaesthesia – and to be passionate advocates for its future. So we were delighted to join some of the movement’s strongest allies in New York this…

Welcome Lifebox-Medsin reps!

We’re so delighted that our call to action was answered and we will be hosting our first event with our first ever group of Lifebox-Medsin reps on Saturday 24 September. We know that students are the future of global surgery…

ASA raffle to support Lifebox

And they’re using it to launch a very glamorous fundraising effort for Lifebox… To mark the 75th Diamond Jubilee of the ASA National Scientific Congress, the society is raffling a diamond pendant with all proceeds going to Lifebox. The draw will take…

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