Lifebox’s Top Achievements of 2024
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
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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.
Celebrating 10 + 1 Years Saving Lives Through Safer Surgery
Lifebox is celebrating ten – plus one – years of saving lives through safer surgery. As we mark more than a decade of making surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide, we wanted to share the milestones that…
Welcoming Professor Maswime to the Lifebox Board
Lifebox welcomes obstetrician and gynecologist, Professor Salome Maswime, to its Global Governance Council We are excited to announce the appointment of Professor Salome Maswime to our Global Governance Council. Professor Maswime is a Professor and Head of the Global…
A Major Change in Children’s Surgery
Dr. Getaw Alamnie is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Smile Train partner facility Yekatit 12 Medical College Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and fellow on the new Clean Cut for Cleft program launched by Smile Train and Lifebox. Dr.
New program to make surgery safer for children with cleft
What is Clean Cut for Cleft and how will it make surgery for children with cleft safer? Clean Cut for Cleft is a new program – launched today by Smile Train and Lifebox – to…
Anesthesia Under Fire
Anesthesia under fire: experiences of providing patient care in Ukraine today
New Partnership: Lifebox and The University of Global Health Equity
Lifebox and The University of Global Health Equity announce new partnership for safer anesthesia and surgical care.
New publication: UV-C Decontamination
Multidisciplinary team invents low-cost decontamination cabinet that quintuples N95 mask supplies, ideal for low-resource settings.
New publication – Operating room efficiency in a low-resource setting
A new study outlines operating room efficiency in a teaching hospital in Ethiopia finding high rates of cancellation and delays but that these were not caused by a lack of resources or infrastructure.
New Lifebox Leadership Roles
Lifebox appoints five new roles to the leadership of its global Lifebox team.
Lifebox Welcomes New Interim Chair
Lifebox announces the appointment of Pauline Philip as Interim Chair of its Global Governance Council. Pauline is one of the founders of Lifebox and as Director of Patient Safety at the World Health Organization (WHO) was instrumental in developing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
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