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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…
The World We Want 2015
It’s a magnificent proposition. Go on: design the world you want your children to grow up in. Just remember that you can’t choose their sex, their race, their long- or latitude. And you don’t know their…
Security warning – communications from Lifebox
Lifebox will only ever communicate with you from an email address using the format [name]@lifebox.org. Please check the sender’s address carefully if you receive unexpected emails or mailings purporting to be from Lifebox. You can also call us on…
Lifebox joins FRSB
We are delighted to announce that Lifebox is now a member of the UK’s Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB). Joining the 1,400 other fundraising organizations signed up to the FRSB, means that we will have…
Thank you
They say that the recession is affecting charitable giving. We say, have you met the readers of the British Medical Journal. Over the last two months, a stationer’s rainbow of envelopes has greeted our mornings and a…
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