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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.

The Sound of Science

Sometimes progress is quiet – and sometimes it goes beep! Like a pulse oximeter, the most essential monitoring device in modern anaesthesia.  Providers all over the world tell us what vital information and comfort they take from the sound of…

Susan Wanjiru – PAWAS

Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery is important in women’s health because women are a fundamental part of the society we live in. Surgery can prevent a large number of deaths from cancers of the…

Olukemi Lawani – PAWAS

Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery offers an extraordinary healthcare intervention: delving into a patients’ vital organs with the knife, with benevolent intent. But the surgeon’s impact is holistic: our work goes beyond the operative…

Miriam Mutebi – PAWAS

Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Some of the top causes of premature death of women in Africa are maternal deaths and cancer related deaths largely from breast and cervical cancers. Many of these causes are…

India National Surgical Forum

It’s called ‘global surgery’ because there’s not a single health system in the world that can support a healthy population without providing surgical care; but that doesn’t mean there’s a one size fits all solution. Different countries have…

Live from Burkina Faso!

We’re back in West Africa for #SaferSurgeryBurkinaFaso – and our trusty team is keeping us up to date on the latest! Tune in below as Dr Angela Enright reports from behind the scenes of our life-saving safe anaesthesia…

International Women’s Day #PledgeforParity

Champions and advocates around the world celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) every 8th March, and once again we’re thrilled to join in: continuing a Lifebox tradition of shining a spotlight on women at the frontline of…

Back to Burkina Faso

In 2013, following a needs assessment by the national society of anaesthesia (SARMU-B) and thanks to our MAKE IT 0® supporters at the Canadian Anesthesiolgists’ Society (CAS), we donated 117 monitors to…

Celebrating five years of safer surgery

The Lifebox 2015 Annual Review is out! And we’re so excited to share it with you: a recap of a very busy year, and a celebration of five years of Lifebox. We’ve come a long way since we…

Mercy Ships film

Lifebox and Mercy Ships share a commitment to safer surgery for all, and we’ve worked closely together over the years through distribution of lifesaving equipment, training to hospitals and long-term follow up to make it more than…

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