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.
Universal Health Coverage Day
Saturday 12 December is Universal Health Coverage Day (UHC), a rallying call to action to ensure global access to affordable and quality health care services for all when needed. Health for all? We say: yes! So do…
Lifebox in Nepal
(c) Leprosy Mission We met volunteer nurse Erin Horn through friends at Mercy Ships. The name Anandaban, she told us, literally means ‘forest of joy,’ and the hospital is ‘a sanctuary for those affected by…
#SaferSurgeryZambia
All roads lead to Zambia this week, as we co-host the 4th Lifebox and SAFE Obstetric Anaesthesia course in Ndola, the third-largest city. We are so proud to be collaborating with our co-founders the Association of Anaesthetists of…
Hawassa Here We Come!
This spring we announced our second technical stream of work, in collaboration with the GE Foundation and local partners: reduction of surgical site infection. Led by Lifebox trustee and global surgery expert Tom Weiser, this…
#WAMM2015
Lifebox® was invited to attend the very first World Airway Management Meeting (WAMM), hosted by the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) and the Society for Airway Management (SAM) in Dublin from 12 to…
Thanks SIVA!
Getting to know the anaesthesia community over the last few years is just one of the privileges we’ve had, as we work towards safer surgery and anaesthesia worldwide. It’s a wide-ranging, dynamic – and generous! – group. …
Dominican Republic Headlines!
Lifebox was selected as of the Nominet Trust’s 100 organisations using tech for good, and we know our way around social media. But there’s something special about seeing our name in fresh, inky, smudgeable print…
Lifebox is an innovator for World Pneumonia Day
When pulse oximeters were first introduced to hospitals in the 1980s, they were expensive, heavy, and scarce. Clinicians used to run, not walk, to the OR every morning – they wanted that life-saving device for their patient. Today, pulse…
Lifebox Masterclass at ASA
ORD -> IAD -> SFO -> MSY -> SAN: Lifebox and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) go way back. And forth. And…
World Anaesthesia Day!
On October 16th, 1846, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston proved it was possible for patients to undergo surgery without the pain – the torture – that an operation had previously entailed. Nearly 170 years later,…
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