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.
Ready, Set, Cycle!
If you pay attention to the Lifebox latest news, you’ll recall that this oximeter and this car share a birthday as well as a favourite colour. What better reason do you need for…
Meet our new fellows!
In January this year we had the opportunity to sit down with our first Lifebox fellows to discuss their upcoming placements in Ethiopia and Uganda. In collaboration with the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (…
Born Safe Global goes live!
Maybe it’s no surprise that after years as the “neglected stepchild of public health,” our push to get safer surgery into the mainstream begins with a baby. Not just any baby: the children of our friends,…
Global Surgery Team Work
An email pings in from Boston, USA – subject: Oximeter to India? As l read Lifebox chair and co-founder Atul Gawande’s editorial published in the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery…
Lancet Commission on Global Surgery: neglected no more?
Surgery has often been referred to as “the neglected stepchild of public health” – under-resourced, under-valued and misunderstood. But today marks a bold step in the fight against unsafe surgery, with the launch of the Lancet…
What’s the craic?
For the third year running, Lifebox ran to sign up and attend the Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland Conference – now in its 90th year, dignified and dedicated as ever! More than…
Lifebox Competition 2015
“Safe surgery is a global concern and we want to know what it means to you. Lifebox is pleased to ring the opening bell for our annual competition: an opportunity to win prizes, raise the level of debate about access…
Making It Happen
It’s late on a Monday and l’ve been scrolling through my Twitter feed for the past hour. I don’t normally spend this much time on one Twitter session but it’s almost as if I’m reading a book that I just…
Save the date! Lifebox Day 2015
BREAKING NEWS – Lifebox Day programme is now live! Click here to see the speakers and set up for the day – and email [email protected] for the last remaining places. — — — If you missed Lifebox Day last…
London to Brighton Mini Ride
1990: the year that pulse oximeters became an American standard for safe anaesthesia monitoring. 1989: the year they made this car. It’s a natural fit –…
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