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 […]
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 […]
You can cite the right statistics. You can read the New York Times over morning coffee. But stepping up to the operating room table while the sweat drips off your forehead? As colleagues in low-resource settings know, that’s when unsafe surgery gets personal. Just ask Steve Brosnan and Corinna Matt, consultants from the Luton & Dunstable University Hospital in […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Dr Traudl Elsholz would be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed and overworked. She’s one of only three medical anaesthetists in the entire country of Eritrea. That’s in addition to the 37 diploma nurses who have spent between 6 months and 2 years training in anaesthesia to meet the needs of 5 million people. “As you can […]
Over breakfast at the SAFE course/Lifebox training in Rwanda a few weeks ago – bread, boiled eggs, thick black coffee and milky African tea – – a male guest at the Dereva Hotel was heard to inquire: “Tell me, why it is that women dominate anaesthesia?” Was that a glint in his eye or not? […]
The Lifebox oximeter meets USA Food and Drug Administration standards for accuracy, extensive tests show. “Accuracy of the Lifebox pulse oximeter during hypoxia in healthy volunteers,” published this month in the medical journal Anaesthesia, finds that the Lifebox model detects hypoxia at a degree of accuracy and bias that is comparable to the FDA-approved pulse […]
