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Join us for Capno Week

Move over Shark Week, Capno Week is here. Join us to close the global capnography gap so that every anesthesia provider, no matter where they work, are equipped with a capnograph.

Masterclass!

Global anaesthesia starts at home, and ASA members have a wealth of experience to share.  That’s why GHO and Lifebox are delighted to announce a series of masterclasses taking place at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2014. What’s the one…

AAGBI cycles for Guy and Lifebox

Summer is winding down but AAGBI members are turning up the gears on their carbon frame bikes!  They’re getting ready to pedal off this weekend for the Annual Congress in Harrogate – breaking a sweat, raising money and saving…

Comic Time Out

Not every comic is meant to be funny. While the Scottish city of Dundee’s classic troublemaker Dennis the Menace always lunged for the elbow, one of its newer residents has gone for the incision.

A two-way street

You can cite the right statistics. You can read the New York Times over morning coffee. But stepping up to the operating room table while the sweat drips off your forehead? As colleagues in low-resource settings know,…

What’s it like to volunteer at Lifebox?

“In every aspect of life, the phrase ‘the more you learn, the more you realise how little you know’ seems to ring true – yet in the context of volunteering with Lifebox on my…

Offside with Lifebox 2014

  What about how countries compare in terms of population?  Number of physicians?  Maternal mortality?  It’s not an even field. So as the world gears up for the 2014 World Cup, Lifebox is preparing to take you offside. We’ll be taking a…

Hey SASA, what's that we hear?

The South African Society of Anaesthesiologists is hosting another concert for Lifebox! Join SASA members for an afternoon of music, soup and sherry, and join the campaign to make surgery safer in low-resource settings. Time and date:…

Hej hej E.S.A!

Their conference sets up shop in a different European city each year. In 2012 we put our best bisou forward making introductions in Paris… …last year we said hola to old acquaintances in Barcelona, and this year……

The humanity in humanitarian

But what else could they do?  It’s the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, when MSF concluded that “you can’t stop genocide with doctors.”   The current situation in Central African Republic (…

A life-affirming measurement

Spot the Lifebox So we were predisposed to like Rotary, and that’s before you factor in the amazing work they’ve been helping us with over the last year! As we wrote in the April issue of Rotary Today (you can…

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