Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
At Lifebox, we recognize that safer surgery saves lives—and that women are a vital part of this mission. Women play a significant role in surgical teams worldwide, whether as surgeons and anesthesiologists performing life-saving procedures, or nurses providing essential…
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
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.
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.
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…
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 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…
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 trustee Dr Alan Merry was interviewed for the September issue of the ANZCA Bulletin. Click here to read more.
In less than two minutes, Christine Nanyanzi can convince you that the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is a vital tool for saving lives – and that its absence from the operating room can kill.
The International Education Foundation of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society has been working to develop the anesthesia specialty in Rwanda for many years. Now the Foundation is raising funds to support a pulse oximetry educational project in that country through Lifebox. The…
The World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) takes place every four years and the 15th WCA will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 25–30 March 2012. Lifebox is currently planning our attendance at WCA. We look forward to meeting many of…
The Lifebox team will be at the upcoming American Society of Anesthesiologists’ annual meeting in Chicago from 15-19 October this year. Find us in the ASA Resource Center and at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists’ booth in the exhibition hall. Our…
Philip Ongom’s old pulse oximeter finally stopped working last February during an emergency caesarian section. Ask him about that moment and the anaesthetic officer, who has worked at a district hospital in Western Uganda for six years, remembers every detail with…
