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.
A week in the Life of Niger
This week we’re joining the Liya Kebede Foundation on Instagram, sharing our work in Niger and the impact that safer surgery has for mothers and babies worldwide. It’s been five months since our countrywide…
Liya Kebede Foundation – Instagram vacation!
In May 2015, we took on one of our biggest collaborations to date: safer surgery in every government hospital in Niger. Our super team: the Nigerien anaesthesia community, the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health and…
Laura Irwin and Reza Noori
Adventurers/doctors Laura Irwin and Reza Noori are embarking on a year long unaided cycle journey to help support safer surgery in low resource countries. They’re riding the length of the Andes, the longest mountain range in the world. As far…
Happy Birthday to the WFSA!
All super teams have origin stories, and Lifebox is no different. If you read the history you’ll see that before we were us, we were many other things. Consulting on development of the WHO Surgical Safety…
#LifeboxRugby
Every four years rugby fans and top international teams gather for the Rugby World Cup – a highly anticipated sporting event that rivals the title for ‘the beautiful game.’ And this year’s tournament takes place in the…
#SaferSurgery Uganda
In an episode dedicated to safer surgery, we follow a story of dedication, innovation and improvement in Uganda. From an emergency Caesarean section in a referral hospital, to a pulse oximeter hand-delivered to a hospital in need, this is global…
#SaferSurgeryArmenia
Mark your calendars! A busy week for safer surgery in Armenia, starting Sunday as the ‘Safety in Surgery and Updates of Obstetric Anaesthesia’ conference comes to Yerevan. The Armenian Society of Anaesthesiologists and Intensive Care Specialists (ASAICS)…
ASEAN Anaesthesia
The 19th ASEAN Congress of Anaesthesiology (ACA) opens today, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia – and thanks to friends both local and in the region, Lifebox is proud to play a part. We know that education is essential for…
Sohel Ahmed
We recently caught up with safer surgery advocate Dr Sohel Ahmed, former President of the Sudanese Doctors Union of Ireland (SDUI) to discuss the organisation’s work in supporting anaesthesia providers in the country, and this is what we learned. What…
Al Jazeera – behind the scenes
Al Jazeera’s much-feted medical series The Cure brings science, society and the general public together on one small screen. And independent filmmaker, Daniel Nikolaison is regularly responsible for crafting The Cure stories that are true (without…
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