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The Lifebox 2021 Annual Report details the impact of Lifebox's work to make surgery and anesthesia safer globally.

A Smile Train-Lifebox report on pulse oximetry access and impact in low- and middle-income countries

NEW YORK – July 11, 2022 – Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft organization, today launches a new venture with Lifebox, the global nonprofit organization that makes surgery safer in low-resource settings, to distribute 11,000 pulse oximeters to 20 countries. This distribution, a key milestone of the Smile Train-Lifebox Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative, will […]

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.

On World Pneumonia Day, we spoke to him about this critical work – and its potential to revolutionise diagnosis and treatment of an infection killing nearly a million children a year. A pulse oximeter is a non-invasive device for monitoring the level of oxygen in your blood stream, more often thought of as a hospital tool […]

Lifebox sent an oximeter and the hospital found funding to buy some additional units. But Benson told us some very difficult stories about his anaesthesia practice, and we knew that these few units wouldn’t be enough to keep patients safely monitored in the operating rooms across the region. That was back in October.  Coming on for […]

A dozen countries and hundreds of meetings later, I am more enthusiastic than ever about Lifebox’s work and the global movement in safe surgery and anesthesia that we are part of. As I reflect on the past year and kick off a regular blog feature for our website, I wanted to highlight five of the […]

Back in the late 1990s, an Ethiopian doctor was working with a Norwegian institution to fund a plastic surgery unit at his hospital. When he wanted to speak to them by phone, he’d stay at his mother’s house to use the landline. When they needed to email him he’d go to the university library, ask […]

Lifebox congratulates its Chair and Co-Founder – Dr. Atul Gawande – on his confirmation today as the Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

"You want to make sure that the surgery you are performing is safe for your patient so that no complications arise." OB-GYN Dr. Kezelebah Goyah discusses providing safe maternal healthcare in Liberia.