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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.

Lifebox model is 95% effective, study shows

Essential monitoring and education changes practice and saves lives – and now there’s a study proving that the Lifebox model does just that.’Evaluation of a large-scale donation of Lifebox pulse oximeters to non-physician anaesthetists in Uganda‘ published…

Calling all data lovers!

You don’t have to be a healthcare professional to make a difference in global health. Sometimes you don’t even have to leave the computer. Lifebox sends thousands of pieces of equipment to hospitals across 90 countries worldwide, and works with…

Got any bright ideas?

At 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning?  After a long journey to London from Leeds/Cardiff/Newcastle/St. Andrews?  About my – sorry, have I got this right – my innovative solutions for implementing universal health coverage? Got any coffee? Maybe that’s what you’d…

The Things That Really Need To Be Done

“We’re here today to talk about surgery,” said Lord Bernard Ribeiro, vice chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health, as he welcomed the audience to the Houses of Parliament yesterday.  “Not as a…

Lifebox student toolkit now available

Wondering why global surgery is a crisis?  What Lifebox does about it?  What you can do about it?  Our new toolkit has some answers!  Click below to access and get started.

Can you tell a WHO Checklist story?

Lifebox Foundation and the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist: Share Your Story The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist makes surgery safer – but you’re the ones who save lives. Do you have a story that shows the…

Live benefit concert! Featuring The Hypnotics

If you’re local to Boston, MA, this one’s for you: a live concert featuring The Hypnotics, with proceeds going to support Lifebox and the safer surgery mission. Join Jake Joffe, Kim Atwood and Eric Lerner plus guest appearance by violinist…

Unsafe surgery is our issue

Sometimes a picture – Sometimes a picture says it all. And you don’t need 1000 words to make a point. But sometimes there’s too much to be said. The problem…

International Women's Day: Unsafe Surgery is Our Issue

Lack of access to equipment and training makes surgery desperately unsafe; but obstructed labour, life-threatening bleeding, and fistula are natural risks of childbirth and surgery is the only possible treatment.  The same for breast cancer…

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