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"Let me say, She was Holding her Breath"
This is Samuel Akolgo, a nurse anaesthetist at the Sandema District Hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana. He received one of the Lifebox pulse oximeters donated earlier this year through the partnership between Ghana Health…
Lifebox and Smile Train
The steady beep of the pulse oximeter is the hushed voice of the patient on the operating table. The team listens: surgeon, anaesthesia provider, and nurse know all is well. The same goes for the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist –…
Lifebox gets a visit
In the words of a colleague: ‘She doesn’t call a spade a spade; she calls it a shovel.’ A long-time Lifebox supporter, Dr Jacob paid us a visit in London this week. We couldn’t resist the chance…
Easing the odds on the margins – Atul Gawande in The Independent News
“Before the introduction of oxygen monitors it was not the surgery that was dangerous, it was the anaesthesia. People would suffocate because they were not getting enough oxygen and you wouldn’t know it till their heart stopped. Sometimes surgeons would…
Improving obstetric anaesthesia
Lifebox was recently featured on Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 when Dr Isabeau Walker highlighted the need to improve obstetric anaesthesia safety around the world. For more information or to listen again, click here.
Lifebox on Twitter
Don’t forget to take a look at our Lifebox Twitter feed: @safersurgery. We are tweeting about healthcare developments around the world, from free maternal care in Sierra Leone to new developments in patient safety research. Follow us…
NWAC World Anesthesia Congress
The NWAC World Anesthesia Congress is starting in Rome, Italy, this week and will continue until 15 April 2011. To download the conference programme and for more information, click here.
Conference on surgery and anaesthesia in Uganda
This Saturday, 2 April 2011, sees the second annual conference on surgery and anaesthesia in Uganda. Held at the Paetzold Centre at Vancouver General Hospital, the conference features presentations from leading healthcare practitioners in Uganda and Canada, including Dr Angela…
Alan Merry on Radio New Zealand
Lifebox returns to Radio New Zealand, where Alan Merry talks to Kim Hill about Auckland Hospital’s leading role in developing the Surgical Safety Checklist and Lifebox’s mission to make surgery safer. Click here to listen.
Children’s Heart Hospital
“I have just returned from a visit to the Children’s Heart Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the charity Chain of Hope, two organizations dedicated to helping children with congenital heart disease in low-income countries. Chain of Hope has introduced…
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