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.
Lifebox grant winners
The funding means that we’re able to launch an ambitious project in Tanzania – making surgery and anaesthesia safer across the north of the country. Lifebox will be partnering with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre…
Lifebox at Euroanaesthesia 2016
The European Anaesthesiology Congress is coming to London this weekend, and we have some wonderful news: our hosts have chosen Lifebox as the conference charity. We’re thrilled that the European Society of Anaesthesiology…
Medical students go #GlobalSurgeryDay
Medical students are the future of global surgery. Chronology, multiplied by epidemiology, to the power of social media – it’s a fierce equation that looks to balance the inequity in surgical and anaesthetic access, safety, participation and voice. Last month…
#WHA69: from resolution to reality
In 1980, the WHO Director-General made that speech. In 2015, after decades of work, surgery and anaesthesia reached the World Health Assembly agenda for the first time – and got a resolution. Lifebox was…
A noisy week in Tanzania
The 2015/16 nurse anaesthesia students at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) graduated this week, and we sent them each a pulse oximeter to take on the next step. There are limited training opportunities for specialised…
Safer surgery in difficult times – Lifebox in Côte d’Ivoire
Back in March, Côte d’Ivoire was in the news for devastating reasons. Violence dominated the headlines, by chance the same week that Lifebox was in town for a very different story: safer surgery. This is a story…
South University
For the second year running the South University Anesthesiologist Assistant Program held its annual Chili Cook-Off to raise funds for Lifebox. We were keen to find out how this tasty fundraiser (which has become a firm tradition) started, so we…
World Congress of Nurse Anesthetists
We’re so excited to attend this event because Lifebox works closely with nurse anaesthetists on the front line of anaesthesia care worldwide. Colleagues have championed our work and helped raise funds to support hospital…
Safe Surgical Hands
We’ve heard a lot of stories of complication, injury and even death in surgery over the last five years – but not a single one begins with an operating room team saying: “Today we’re going to do unsafe surgery.” Even…
Smile Train and Lifebox – a legacy of safer surgery
NGOs work best when they work together – and we’ve been working with Smile Train for as long as we can remember. From our earliest days to our fifth birthday, we’ve teamed…
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