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Join us for Capno Week

Move over Shark Week, Capno Week is here. Join us to close the global capnography gap so that every anesthesia provider, no matter where they work, are equipped with a capnograph.

Altitude sickness

This is a photo of Dr Nikhil Rastogi, director of undergraduate anesthesia at the Ottawa Hospital in Canada.  It was taken last year at Cotacachi Hospital in Ecuador, where Lifebox donated a pulse oximeter through Medical Ministry International.

Fundraising for Lifebox

There are many ways in which you can help Lifebox put pulse oximeters into operating rooms which don’t have them – in the process saving thousands of lives. You can hold bake sales, tell your friends, family and colleagues about…

Surgery is aimed at the majority, not the rich

Did you know that a full 11% of the global burden of violence and injury – which occurs overwhelmingly in low and lower-middle income – countries could be treated with surgery? That’s an incredible opportunity to save lives! And it’s…

Spotlight on South Sudan

“South Sudan is a brand new country, adjusting to its newfound independence.  The infrastructure and the finances are not yet fully developed, and Juba Teaching Hospital frequently has no electricity or running water.  However, when there is emergency surgery to…

2011 annual review

Curious about what Lifebox has been up to in 2011?  Want to know more about how we work to improve surgical and anaesthesia safety around the world? Download our 2011 annual review to…

BMJ Christmas Appeal 2011

We are delighted – and incredibly honoured – that the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has chosen Lifebox for its 2011 Christmas campaign. The campaign launches on 3 December and will run to the…

Lifebox makes page 2!

Lifebox is top of the fold of Page2Anesthesiology today, the blog for the journal Anesthesiology. Editor Dr  J. Lance Lichtor asks readers to: ‘First, consider the ASA standards for basic anesthetic monitoring… Second, as…

They call it the Windy City…

Lifebox is standing a little taller this week – approximately 46,000 times taller!  That’s the size of the American Society of Anesthesiologists membership, and you might have seen from our website that this anaesthetic colossus recently launched…

Lifebox in the news down under

Lifebox trustee Dr Alan Merry was interviewed for the September issue of the ANZCA Bulletin.  Click here to read more.

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