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.
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…
Winter Scientific Eating
The Great Anaesthesia Bake got a boost from the capital this week, as anaesthetists across the country gathered in Westminster for the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI)’s Winter Scientific Meeting (WSM).
Job vacancy: Lifebox Finance Manager (1 day/week)
We’d love to hear from anyone interested in our vacancy for a part-time (1 day a week) Finance Manager. Feel free to call Kristine Stave on 0203 286 0402 for an informal chat about the job.
Winners of the Lifebox Competition
We were thrilled to receive so many inspirational and thought-provoking entries to the first Lifebox Competition. The top three entries were announced at Lifebox Day on 18 January 2014, and we are delighted to share these with you below.
Lifebox Day
As Lifebox chairman, surgeon, author and casual time traveler Atul Gawande (bodily in Boston and telegenically in London) explained by video, “the global health landscape is changing. For…
Once Upon a Landline: putting the global in global health
Back in the late 1990s, an Ethiopian doctor was working with a Norwegian institution to fund a plastic surgery unit at his hospital. When he wanted to speak to them by phone, he’d stay at his…
This is what a busy year looks like!
Before 2014 gets underway, take a moment to leaf through 2013. With photos, friendly faces, handy facts and a dizzying month-by-month spread, we’re proud to present our year in review. Click here to make the pages…
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