Search

Anesthesia under fire: experiences of providing patient care in Ukraine today

What is Clean Cut for Cleft and how will it make surgery for children with cleft safer? Clean Cut for Cleft is a new program – launched today by Smile Train and Lifebox – to tackle one of the greatest risks to surgical patients: infection. 

PREVIOUS UPDATES ON LIFEBOX’s COVID-19 RESPONSE: Update April 24:  VIDEO: Watch a Virtual Grand Rounds: “Preparing the Perioperative Ecosystem of Sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19” Update April 15: Lifebox’s core objective is to improve the safety of surgery and anesthesia in low and middle-income countries. The healthcare workers we work with everyday are now on the […]

Our online learning platform - the Lifebox Learning Network - is an open access platform for healthcare providers with interactive courses on safer surgery and anesthesia.

Today we launch the Lifebox-Smile Train pulse oximeter with our long-standing partner Smile Train to scale up access to pulse oximetry for anesthesia and critical care. Pulse oximeters rapidly measure the oxygen level of the blood and are essential for patient monitoring during anesthesia and in intensive care. This easy-to-use device is the only piece […]

Lifebox saves lives through safer surgery and anesthesia by investing in tools, training, and partnerships.

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 […]

One such partner is safe anaesthesia champion, Dr Arvin Karu from Papua New Guinea. He’s on mission, working with Lifebox: Australia and New Zealand, to equip every operating room and critical care ward across PNG with a Lifebox pulse oximeter. We recently caught up with Dr Karu, and this is what we learned. You’re the […]

At 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning?  After a long journey to London from Leeds/Cardiff/Newcastle/St. Andrews?  About my – sorry, have I got this right – my innovative solutions for implementing universal health coverage? Got any coffee? Maybe that’s what you’d say, you older people with your groggy eyes and your cynical morning breath.  Medsin members […]

The Lifebox Foundation, a global charity working to improve the safety of surgical care in low-resource settings, today welcomed the spotlight on the issue of environment-inappropriate medical equipment and restated its commitment to appropriate, effective technology. As a report released by the Technologies for Global Health Commission last week shows, much of the medical equipment […]