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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.
Lifebox Expands Global Access to Pulse Oximeters and Education
144 countries worldwide are now eligible to purchase oximeters and receive donations, as Lifebox expands outreach to include upper-middle income countries as defined by the World Bank and United Nations. The global…
A Nice Complement
So it was a nice collaboration when Gradian Health Systems, a not-for-profit provider of anaesthesia machines for low-resource settings, recently bought 20 Lifebox pulse oximeters for each of its UAM machines, currently in facilities across…
Sweet Home Alabama
Or Sweet Home Pulse Oximeter, as the headline to our favourite article on p32 of the June edition of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Newsletter goes. (Click here to read it.) The Alabama…
Comment voulez-vous…
We talk about the pulse oximetry gap so often that it’s easy to forget what a shocking statistic it really is. Anaesthesia without pulse oximetry monitoring is incredibly dangerous, and lives…
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