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.
But it could be so much more
“We have a couple of monitors from the US. Lovely, lovely multi-parameter monitors – but they only work with a battery. And they didn’t send the battery.” “People send things with the best of intentions, but they’re not thinking about…
The Boston Lifebox Challenge
Boston-area hospitals are competing to raise money for Lifebox. There’s already been a fundraising breakfast held at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, but the big event of the season will be the Sunday, June 3rd…
What a difference a day makes
Dr Traudl Elsholz would be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed and overworked. She’s one of only three medical anaesthetists in the entire country of Eritrea. That’s in addition to the 37 diploma nurses who have spent between 6 months and 2…
Going above and beyond
Members of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS) have raised funds to send 268 pulse oximeters to operating rooms in Rwanda – exceeding their target of 250 oximeters by several thousand dollars. CAS President Dr. Rick Chisholm wasn’t surprised. “Canadian anesthesiologists…
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…
Lifebox Makes World Anaesthesia News
Click here to read more about Lifebox and our work in Uganda in the most recent issue of World Anaesthesia News!…
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…
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