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.
Meet our new Global COO
Next month Lifebox UK Executive Director Kristine Stave becomes our Global Chief Operating Officer. Kristine joined Lifebox in 2011, after several years working in Patient Safety at the World Health Organization. Time for a re-introduction… You joined Lifebox before it…
Lifebox News – August edition
Last month we… Celebrated our global network of partnerships with members of our co-founder the World Federation of Societies Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and later, Storified our place in this extraordinary anaesthesia community at the WFSA’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists Learned about…
Celebrating with the WFSA
Usually it’s parents who brag about their offspring, not the other way around. But at Lifebox, we’ve always been proud of our roots. Our co-founder, the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) is an extraordinary organisation:…
Lifebox News – July edition
We understand you’re busy – so are we! If you haven’t had time to check in with Lifebox lately, here’s where you can get caught up. Welcome to the July #LifeboxNews: highlights from a busy month in…
WCA countdown
The World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) is less than a month away! Lifebox is off to Hong Kong with our chair and keynote speaker Atul Gawande, to join hosts (and Lifebox co-founders) the World Federation Societies of Anaesthesiologists…
Tanzania, safe surgery with safe anaesthesia
Lifebox has a long history of working with colleagues across Tanzania: from supporting anaesthesia providers with essential equipment to collaborating with international and local partners such as the Society of Anaesthesiologists of Tanzania (SATA) in delivering…
Cameroon, diaspora and safer surgery
When it comes to making global surgery safer, where in the world do you start? At home. Diaspora communities are some of the most passionate and effective agents for safe surgery and anaesthesia we’ve met, with a connection and commitment…
RCoA: Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice
For the second year running the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) has made a commitment to support our safer anaesthesia work worldwide through their annual Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice event, to be held on Wednesday 20…
The Power of Pulse Oximetry
Road traffic accidents. Congenital heart defects. Maternal mortality. Pneumonia. This is the permafrost of public health, killing tens of millions of people worldwide each year. But there’s a singular piece of medical equipment increasingly recognised as critical in the resistance. It…
Meet Dr Ed Fitzgerald
One thing we know here at Lifebox is that safe surgery means team work. Our small but mighty team is made up of colleagues from different backgrounds and specialities, all with a common goal to help make surgery safer worldwide. Introducing…
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