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.
Cycling Surgeons: a high-profile adventure in support of a life-saving initiative
How do you get from Glasgow to London? This September, leading paediatric ENT surgeons are crossing the country the hard way. They’re putting down the scalpel and swapping scrubs for lycra, cycling hundreds of miles over hill and dale and…
BBC feature on Lifebox
Our work to implement the Surgical Safety Checklist in Rwanda was featured by BBC News this week.
Science without borders, numbers with intent
Gymnastics in service of illustrating a point (and charming the crowd) during his keynote speech at the Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Scientific Day in London last Friday, and he’s waving his arms enthusiastically.
Raising the dough
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It’s not just good sense; it’s good television
Safe surgery is a hit. We known from personal testimony that it saves lives, and from myriad studies that the numbers stand up to scrutiny – now it’s a rating smash too! Everyone’s talking about the recent BBC2 Horizon programme…
Troubleshooting
Your pulse oximeter was specially designed by experts at the World Health Organization and the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. It is robust and easy to use, but very occasionally you may experience some basic issues with the device. We…
A medico-maritime life for me
Bon jour! (The port approach is a lot wetter than starboard entrance) The MV Africa Mercy is the largest charitable hospital ship in the world, providing free surgical services (primarily facial reconstruction, benign…
Women in the workplace
Over breakfast at the SAFE course/Lifebox training in Rwanda a few weeks ago – bread, boiled eggs, thick black coffee and milky African tea – It’s always nice to see what people have for…
SASA!
The South African Society of Anaesthesiologists (SASA) is the latest organization to join the Make It 0 campaign – and they don’t hang about. You can read all about SASA’s enthusiastic support for Lifebox in a letter…
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia – special issue
The latest special issue of the CJA, focused on innovation in perioperative patient safety, covers such favourite Lifebox topics as checklists, anaesthesia in low-resource settings, and quality and safety in healthcare. Several contributors of these important articles…
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