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.
Serious questions and serious answers – #BMJLifebox week two
The best thing about introductions are the questions you get back in return – after all, the surgical safety crisis is going to improve through dialogue, not monologue! – and when they have a question, the readership of the British Medical Journal…
Hot off the press
If you’ve seen our excitement on Facebook or watched us struggle to contain our characters on Twitter, you’ll know that we’ve got some big news to share. Our colleagues in Papua New…
WHO pilot study proves impact of Checklist and oximetry in low-resource settings
Lifebox improves the quality and safety of surgical care in low-resource settings through the provision of pulse oximeters and training in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. While the impact of the Checklist to reduce surgical morbidity and mortality has been…
BMJ Holiday Appeal – 2012!
We are thrilled to announce that Lifebox has been selected as the British Medical Journal’s holiday charity of 2012. Following the enormous success of last year‘s appeal, which raised more than £30,000…
A Long Term Relationship
It started with this photo: October 2011: Dr Jerry Cohen, ASA president elect and University of Florida associate professor, presents Lifebox chairman Atul Gawande with a GIANT CHEQUE. Actually that’s not true. It started with…
I’ll take you there
This is the road leading up to the Outpatient Department at Bungoma District Hospital, in Western Kenya, not far from the border with Uganda: And this is the queue of patients trying to…
London volunteer opportunity
The role We are looking for a committed volunteer to take on a 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…
Honestly, people in love.
(c) This Sweet Love Photography We might just find it annoying, if people in love weren’t so beautifully generous in their joy! Three happy couples, six friends of Lifebox, have taken a day that is supposed to…
New manual for how to deliver Lifebox training in the field
Following our special session at Anesthesiology 2012 in Washington D.C. today, we are delighted to make available our new manual for how to deliver Lifebox training in the field. This draws on lessons learned from work across Africa, South East…
Target 80
Well, in the 18 months since we got this global pulse oximetry gap in our sights and set out to Make It 0, we’ve knocked more than 3000 off the target! Thanks to the generosity…
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