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.
A very expensive dinner
Was it the pledge card in every delegate pack? The session on anaesthesia safety and the devastating impact that limited resources and training can have in the ORs of low-income countries? The friendly competition between tables at the…
Land of the Free
A Liberian flag is hung at the entrance of the Sanniquellie Magisterial Court in Nimba County, Liberia.Photo ID 468148. 19/02/2011. Sanniquellie, Liberia. UN Photo/Staton Winter. But the civil wars of the 1980s and 90s wrecked lives…
Kaiser Permanente raises more than $15,000 for Lifebox
A couple of weeks ago, an unassuming envelope with a US stamp and a California zip code landed on the Lifebox doorstep. Inside was a $250 cheque for the donation of a pulse oximeter to an OR on our…
East in the desert
Robert is the director of Diamedica, a manufacturer of anaesthesia equipment fit for purpose in low-resource settings. He recently returned from Chad, in central Africa, where he took a Lifebox pulse oximeter to leave…
AAwesome effort at SouthUniversity
Students at SouthUniversity‘s anesthesiologist assistant programme raised more than $1000 for Lifebox last week, selling badges at the American Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants (AAAA) conference. “As AA students, we learn the importance of monitoring…
The Equipment Graveyard
Lifebox Trustee Angela Enright and Dr Aigeeleng are old friends – they like to catch up and pose for photos This isn’t quite as morbid as it sounds, but it’s certainly depressing. Harry is talking about equipment…
Update from an archipelago
Lifebox is in the April edition of the Australian Society of Anaesthesiologists’ ASA News, with exciting news on the launch of the Make It Zero campaign and updates for readers on the first donation of oximeters sent to Tonga.
The Days Are Just Packed!
We’ve been typing circles round our to do lists at Lifebox since we got back from the WCA last month. We left Buenos Aires with heads, hearts, (stomachs) full of plans and opportunities for closing the global…
A Lifebox donor's story
Our donors are able to designate the country and facility where the Lifebox pulse oximeter they donate will be sent. This helps build strong links between anaesthesia providers and other healthcare professionals in countries around the world and is an…
Communication with Lifebox and payment details
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…
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