Search

The Smile Train-Lifebox Capnograph: an affordable, high quality device suited for use in low-resource settings

My name is Belinda Karimi and I am a clinical nurse at the Agakhan Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, and a trainer for the Team CLEFT workshop – a professional working group of multidisciplinary health professionals, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses. I didn’t always want to be a nurse. I had early aspirations in journalism, but […]

Usually it’s parents who brag about their offspring, not the other way around. But at Lifebox, we’ve always been proud of our roots. Our co-founder, the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) is an extraordinary organisation: the umbrella body of anaesthesia societies worldwide, it’s a unique collaboration for better standards, education and advocacy across […]

Lifebox and The University of Global Health Equity announce new partnership for safer anesthesia and surgical care.

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, […]

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 […]

Lifebox looks at our top milestones from 2021 making surgery and anesthesia safer through tools, training, and partnerships.  

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

What motivated you to apply for the Lifebox Fellowship?  Working in a low-resource setting has been a long-standing ambition of mine, but I wanted to ensure I had the technical skills, maturity and support to deal with the complex challenges I would undoubtedly face. The Lifebox fellowship was appealing to me because it is a […]

The AA (Anesthesiologist Assistant) Chili Cook Off Competition for Lifebox raising funds for safer anesthesia