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Improving anesthesia safety by equipping anesthesia providers with Smile Train-Lifebox Capnographs: A high quality, affordable capnograph suited for use in low-resource setting operating rooms

Find Lifebox resources for perioperative professionals - including publications, our online learning courses, and Lifebox workshop materials

We are delighted to announce that Lifebox is now a member of the UK’s Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB). Joining the 1,400 other fundraising organizations signed up to the FRSB, means that we will have access to the latest best practice advice and guidance, thereby ensuring that we deliver the best possible service to our donors. […]

At Lifebox we’re proud to be part of the history of safer surgery and anaesthesia – and to be passionate advocates for its future. So we were delighted to join some of the movement’s strongest allies in New York this week, as Lifebox trustee Dr Alexander Hannenberg joined an expert panel at a United Nations […]

This week we’re joining the Liya Kebede Foundation on Instagram, sharing our work in Niger and the impact that safer surgery has for mothers and babies worldwide. It’s been five months since our countrywide project put training and a pulse oximeter into every government hospital and recovery setting.  To celebrate this milestone, and thank the […]

The 70,000 global pulse oximeter gap keeps us busy. Not a day goes by without a Lifebox oximeter winging its way across earth and sea and sky to anaesthesia providers in the most remote hospitals worldwide, delivering life-saving surgery without this life-saving equipment. But some days the skies are heavier than others! In October 2013, […]

The Lifebox Clean Cut program is a surgical quality improvement program that reduces surgical site infections by improving infection prevention practices

Dr. Atul Gawande Co-founded Lifebox and served as Chair of the organization for its first ten years. As Chair, he oversaw Lifebox’s global work to improve the safety of surgery and anesthesia worldwide.

Lifebox investors (aka incredible donors) aren’t looking for financial returns. They know our currency is safer surgery and anaesthesia, and that we measure ourselves against a different gold standard. How many pulse oximeters have we distributed this year?   How many partnerships did we create?  What percentage of healthcare workers leave a Lifebox training workshop more […]

Kris is a former Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) International based in Switzerland where she led an extensive governance reform process, while ensuring coordination of all facets of MSF’s worldwide humanitarian operations. Following nearly fifteen years with MSF, including a field deployment as part of MSF’s Ebola response team in Liberia, […]