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 […]
Lifebox improves the quality and safety of surgical care in low-resource settings through the provision of pulse oximeters and training in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. While the impact of the Checklist to reduce surgical morbidity and mortality has been studied at length in a number of countries, its impact and success in a low-resource […]
Lifebox saves lives through safer surgery and anesthesia by investing in tools, training, and partnerships.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sometimes progress is quiet – and sometimes it goes beep! Like a pulse oximeter, the most essential monitoring device in modern anaesthesia. Providers all over the world tell us what vital information and comfort they take from the sound of it beeping in the OR – and how dangerous it feels to work in a […]
