Healthcare workers can be placed at risk in the workplace through exposure to viral and bacterial pathogens. The mission of Lifebox – to improve surgical safety – extends to the safety of healthcare workers caring for patients in clinical care areas, as well as performing surgical instrument decontamination and materials reprocessing. A key element of healthcare […]
This free online interactive course covers the fundamentals of capnography in five modules: Introduction to capnography Physiology of carbon dioxide Using your capnograph Case studies Care and use of your capnograph Users receive a certificate upon completion of the course. Average course duration is 45 minutes. The course is available for free on the Lifebox Learning […]
In 2010 we sent him our first pulse oximeter. Lifebox wasn’t even Lifebox back then – it was the Global Pulse Oximetry Project, fresh from a worldwide tendering process led by WHO and the WFSA for an ideal monitor to thrive in low-resource settings. We were perched on a desk in a third floor room […]
What was your first experience of anesthesia in a low-resource setting? I spent two months in the Solomon Islands, at the end of medical school. It was totally eye-opening because I’d done all my training around the South East of England. Suddenly here I was on a tropical island, very little in the way of […]
Your voice will be heard, and we will always welcome your ideas to further support our communications, advocacy and fundraising activities. This is for an initial 12-month contract (renewal subject to availability of funds). Reports to: Director of Communications Key responsibilities Support Director of Communications in delivery of communications and advocacy objectives Assist Development Manager […]
“To make people count, we first need to be able to count people,” said then WHO Director General Lee Jong-Wook in 2003/last week on the excellent Guardian Global Development Professionals Network. If only ‘counting people’ was as easy as 1,2,3. Good data gathering takes planning, it takes money, and it takes time you really don’t […]
Held on 19 November, members of the global surgery community met to discuss and share experiences on the key contemporary issues of neo-colonialism in global surgery and actionable goals that can be taken to address this. This session was held by an informal coalition of individuals, organizations and institutions in the global surgery community. […]
What is Corbis’s mission? Corbis Sussex is a student-faculty multidisciplinary group comprising individuals with global health interests based in Brighton. Our objective is to foster the growth of a cohesive, multi-disciplinary, global health community at the University of Sussex, BSMS and Brighton area, engaging with partners in the wider health and development sector and to […]
Dr. Mary Nabukenya is lecturer at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, and works as an anesthesiologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. She has helped to lead many perioperative safety training courses for anesthesia providers throughout the country. She spoke with Lifebox trustee, co-founder, and fellow anesthesiologist Dr. Isabeau Walker about the status […]
We asked Daniel Berman. Daniel’s the Lead of the Global Health Team at Nesta, charged with taking the brilliant idea of a Surgical Equity Prize and bringing it to life. Scroll down to learn more about the process of prize development, why now’s the time for a surgery prize, and how the Challenges of Our […]
