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.
#HumanitarianHeroes
Wednesday 19 August marks the United Nations World Humanitarian Day (WHD), a day which aims to celebrate humanitarian work around the world, and this year the spotlight is on Humanitarian Heroes – people from…
GE Foundation grant
Lifebox receives $500,000 GE Foundation grant for ground-breaking Surgical Infection Prevention Initiative. In 2010 we launched our pulse oximetry programme, delivering environment-appropriate equipment and training to ORs worldwide – and safeguarding more than 10 million lives…
Front Page Togo
From the instant of publication in 2005, ‘Deaths Associated with Anaesthesia in Togo, West Africa’ was famous. We knew that anaesthesia in a low-resource setting could be dangerous – that without the equipment, support and training safety…
Island surgery – a Q&A
Caroline Kilduff is a recent graduate from Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry. She’s also a talented graphic designer, helping Lifebox with such visual feasts as our student toolkit, BMA volunteer…
Cambodia – checks!
The research put numeric handles on a previously ungraspable crisis, and they’ve been cited ever since – vital tools in the long-push to bring global surgery onto the global health agenda. Two other things to know about the Stanford surgeon…
Summer volunteer
Make a difference in global health – no medical experience required Looking for an opportunity to understand more about global health, the intersection between public and private sector, and the logistics of sending thousands of medical devices to more than 90…
News from Fort Portal
Lifebox® and Uganda go way back – our very first distribution (and our very first blog!) It’s always exciting when we hear news from friends and colleagues there – particularly when they have stories…
Enrique Cosme Pereira
The 2015 Ansell Cares H.E.R.O Nurse Service Award in collaboration with the European Operating Room Nurses Association (EORNA), celebrates and recognises the important contributions of perioperative nurses to patient care. As part of this award we received a donation of…
Pulse Oximetry Pioneer Honoured by IEEE
Pioneer: “a person who is among the first to research and develop a new area of knowledge or activity.” This definition stood out as we received the news that Dr Takuo Aoyagi, a Senior Manager at Nihon…
Lifebox® – a hero’s choice!
Surgery is safe when the surgical team is strong – and Operating Room nurses are the players everyone wants on the team! They advocate for the patient, advocate for safety, and we’ve been proud to link for several years…
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