Not every comic is meant to be funny. While the Scottish city of Dundee’s classic troublemaker Dennis the Menace always lunged for the elbow, one of its newer residents has gone for the incision. Handiwork: surgery in sequential art, by Emmanouil Kapazoglou, adapts the comic strip format to tell a serious story that is both […]
Last month we… Welcomed the end of the year with our 2016 Annual Review – packed with stats, stories and photos of a year in safer surgery and anaesthesia Published our beautifully designed and practical pulse oximeter educational videos – available in Amharic, English, French, Hindi and Spanish Said goodbye to a global health pioneer, […]
The latest special issue of the CJA, focused on innovation in perioperative patient safety, covers such favourite Lifebox topics as checklists, anaesthesia in low-resource settings, and quality and safety in healthcare. Several contributors of these important articles are Lifebox trustees and champions and you can read full versions of their articles on our website here.
Our work to implement the Surgical Safety Checklist in Rwanda was featured by BBC News this week. The piece has been featured on the BBC World Service and was the fifth most read on the BBC website on 13 July. We are delighted that a major broadcaster is drawing attention to the critical issues faced […]
I have to say that the conference was an experience beyond all my expectations. I was impressed by the high quality of speakers and the perfect organization. The range of lectures, panels and workshops kept me focused all day long. I even had the pleasure to be on a panel alongside with Dr Nick Boyd, Mr Andy […]
Earlier this year our Honourary Clinical Advisor, Dr Ed Fitzgerald travelled to Rwanda to deliver essential surgical training and follow-up on Checklist and pulse oximeter use at Kibagabaga hospital. In this blog first published on our co-founder the WFSA’s website he reflects on his trip. One of the remarkable aspects of returning to Rwanda regularly over the […]
Summer is winding down but AAGBI members are turning up the gears on their carbon frame bikes! They’re getting ready to pedal off this weekend for the Annual Congress in Harrogate – breaking a sweat, raising money and saving lives with the proceeds. This year’s cycle splits funds for two causes – Lifebox and the […]
A dozen countries and hundreds of meetings later, I am more enthusiastic than ever about Lifebox’s work and the global movement in safe surgery and anesthesia that we are part of. As I reflect on the past year and kick off a regular blog feature for our website, I wanted to highlight five of the […]
Lifebox is standing a little taller this week – approximately 46,000 times taller! That’s the size of the American Society of Anesthesiologists membership, and you might have seen from our website that this anaesthetic colossus recently launched a campaign to support us. ASA held their annual meeting in Chicago last week, and invited Lifebox along […]
The late Dr Vincent James Hughes was a Canadian anesthesiologist who dedicated his professional life to improving anaesthesia care worldwide. He spent ten years working in the West Indies; ten as a physician-anesthesiologist in Zimbabwe, and ten back home at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, where he continued to support outreach programmes in low-resource settings. […]
