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.
I left my heart…
…in San Francisco, where the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) held their annual conference this year. “How beautiful!” everyone back home told you.
Volunteer with Lifebox
The role We are looking for a committed volunteer to take on number of administrative projects within Lifebox Foundation HQ in London. Ideally this would involve one full day or two half day’s commitment each week for a minimum of…
The icing on the cake…
…is blue and red to map the anatomically-correct arteries of the heart, sculpted from madeira cake by a cardiac anaesthetist. …is yellow and artfully piped above a simple Victoria Sandwich loaf in the…
A full-on Monet
It’s easy to classify countries at distance. Hot/cold. High/low-income. From far away, it’s OK, but up close – as the Clueless truism goes – it’s a big old mess. (c) worldmapper.org Particularly when it comes to income. …
Eff. Dee. Ae.
Celebrities may not read their reviews, but at Lifebox, we do. Avidly. (Don’t you bet the celebrities do too?) We want to know what delegates found most useful – or not – about our workshops. Lifebox training…
WELCOME TO DUBLIN!
DONATE HERE Anaesthetists London-Dublin ride funds safer surgery Eight anaesthetists from across Great Britain arrived in Dublin today (17 Sept 2013) by bike,…
FDA-standard for the low-resource setting
The Lifebox oximeter meets USA Food and Drug Administration standards for accuracy, extensive tests show. “Accuracy of the Lifebox pulse oximeter during hypoxia in healthy volunteers,” published this month in the medical journal Anaesthesia, finds that the…
Steppe-by-Steppe: Safer Surgery in Mongolia
Take, for instance, the recent collaboration between the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and the Mongolian Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) to deliver the…
Before and after
“To make people count, we first need to be able to count people,” said then WHO Director General Lee Jong-Wook in 2003/last week on the excellent Guardian Global Development Professionals Network. If only ‘counting people’ was as…
Man v machine
It’s an impressive site, as a referral hospital for more than 2 million people needs to be. (c) Haydom Lutheran Hospital – https://haydom.or.tz/ But you don’t travel all this way just to…
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