Last month we… Listened to our founder and chair Atul Gawande’s TED Talk in Vancouver (his last one was viewed more than 1.5 million times!) Joined obstetricians and gynaecologists at the Royal College of O&G World Congress in Cape Town, consulting with this critical community for global surgery, and sharing their perspectives on camera Proudly […]
To mark World Pneumonia Day on 12 November we’re delighted to share an interview with consultant anaesthetist and Lifebox Research Fellow, Dr Nick Boyd, who is part of a team working to enhance the Lifebox oximeter and neonatal probe for diagnosis of pneumonia in children under five. Over the year’s you’ve supported Lifebox’s training workshops, follow-ups […]
The Smile Train-Lifebox Capnography Project seeks to find a “capnography solution” to provide comprehensive, safe cleft care through improved patient monitoring during surgery in resource-limited settings. Due to its technical requirements, as well as the cost, capnography is not available in many operating rooms globally. Smile Train and Lifebox have developed specifications for a capnography […]
Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery offers an extraordinary healthcare intervention: delving into a patients’ vital organs with the knife, with benevolent intent. But the surgeon’s impact is holistic: our work goes beyond the operative and into a deeper understanding of principles of medicine to facilitate non- operative management of […]
Back in the late 1990s, an Ethiopian doctor was working with a Norwegian institution to fund a plastic surgery unit at his hospital. When he wanted to speak to them by phone, he’d stay at his mother’s house to use the landline. When they needed to email him he’d go to the university library, ask […]
Ten years since the launch of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, one of the significant benefits has been improved teamwork and communication in the operating room, so what better way to embed this than through multidisciplinary teamwork training? A few years ago, Lifebox trustee Iain Wilson came up with the idea of ‘SAFE OR course,’ […]
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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 […]
Supporting patients with long bone fracture in Malawi with the Lifebox Clean Cut program to reduce surgical infection in orthopedic patients
