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.
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…
#BeyondBorders2016
Lifebox is thrilled to partner with the Medsin Global Surgery National Working Group (NWG) and the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Students Section to host, ‘Beyond Borders: The Future of Global Surgery!’…
We’re going to WACS!
Global surgery, like it says on the box, is a global field – but too often it starts to look like a high-resource setting framework for a low-resource setting problem. This denies how much there is to…
Lifebox Turns Five!
This year Lifebox officially turns five! And we’re so excited to celebrate this landmark milestone with our friends around the world. Born in answer to the growing global health crisis of unsafe surgery, Lifebox was founded…
Grabbing an opportunity to say thanks
Happy new year! We got a lot of beautiful cards and messages of season’s greetings from around the world as 2016 approached – but two of our favourite notes arrived from Uganda, just before the festive season. Thanks to…
A better oximeter for under-5s
But we know there’s more work to be done, in surgery – and other fields where a pulse oximeter can make the difference between life and death. Thanks to support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we…
#GawandeBdayGoal
If you know what we’re talking about, then you’re already a fan of our founder and chair Atul Gawande. And if you don’t, you should definitely click the links above! As a New York Times bestseller and…
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