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.
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…
“Lifebox Africa”: an AA-wesome Effort by South University Students!
All the way from Georgia, U.S.A. without further ado: “Lifebox Africa” is an Anesthesiologist Assistant (AA) student-led initiative that made local news recently after the South University students from the Savannah, GA campus raised…
Nigeria
We have delivered oximeters and training materials to ORs across Nigeria – from Kano in the north to Rivers and Delta State in the south. Some hospitals have been able to purchase oximeters from us, however, the majority have received…
Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a densely populated country with over 145 million people. It is widely recognised to be one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change due to its low-lying position, and faces significant healthcare challenges. We have been delighted to provide…
Direct Donation
That was certainly the case for CRNA Janet Dewan, chair of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Health and Wellness Committee, who first went to work in Niger in 1974. She recently donated an oximeter through…
Surgical safety checklists: do they improve outcomes?
A comprehensive review of the current available literature on the effectiveness of surgical safety checklists has been published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia. This is co-written by Isabeau Walker…
A Great Initiative
Looking back on last year, it really seems like Lifebox was set up and three minutes later Laura Peltola called the office and said that she and her boyfriend, Andrew Moulds, wanted to do a fundraising campaign to buy oximeters…
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