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.
The Long and Winding Road (to surgical safety)
The road from Gondar to Lalibela – beautiful but long.(c) Hailebet If you can’t get to hospital, you can’t get an emergency caesarian section, or life-saving surgery after a road traffic accident. If…
Making It 0 in the Empire State of the South!
Back in May, we got a tantalizing email from Dr Faye Evans, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine, about the upcoming Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists (GSA) meeting.
Vanderbilting bridges: Tennessee to Kenya
Watch the video on the VIA home page, which focuses on Vanderbilt’s relationship with the Kijabe Hospital, in Kenya. Panning down crowded hospital corridors, the images are stark and the voices are shocked.
Never a day at the beach
The Togolese Republic stretches narrowly north 600 km into West Africa, with Burkina Faso at its head and the Bight of Benin swirling at its feet in the capital city of Lomé. But it’s never a day at the beach…
Just so splendid
Lifebox sent an oximeter and the hospital found funding to buy some additional units. But Benson told us some very difficult stories about his anaesthesia practice, and we knew that these few units wouldn’t…
Lifebox Foundation supports the Technologies for Global Health Commission
The Lifebox Foundation, a global charity working to improve the safety of surgical care in low-resource settings, today welcomed the spotlight on the issue of environment-inappropriate medical equipment and restated its commitment to appropriate, effective technology. As a report released…
Challenge Accepted!
When we first heard about the Boston Lifebox Challenge earlier this year, we knew better than to get caught in the crossfire! We watched as ideas, enthusiasm and events ricocheted across the city, and are thrilled to duck…
A bad day and a good day
You might know (because we told you. A couple of times. We told quite a few people) that back in February, Lifebox was in the Solomon Star, the leading newspaper of the Solomon Islands. Thanks…
Filling the vacuum
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of childhood death worldwide. What does that have to do with safe surgery? Nothing explicitly. But pulse oximetry monitoring is essential for oxygen therapy, a basic pneumonia treatment – and if there aren’t…
A favourite Lifebox story…
…begins once upon a time late summer of last year, at a hospital in Nigeria, when a very dynamic doctor placed an order to purchase 75 pulse oximeters and 75 spare probes. And this is what happened next.
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