“We’re here today to talk about surgery,” said Lord Bernard Ribeiro, vice chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health, as he welcomed the audience to the Houses of Parliament yesterday. “Not as a luxury, but as something that changes lives.” Past the policemen, across Westminster Hall and over the commemorative plaques […]
How were you introduced to Lifebox? I have been trained twice by the Lifebox team on safe anesthesia. During these workshops, I was taught how to use the Lifebox pulse oximeter and the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist correctly. The Checklist is a vital tool in making sure that every patient who comes into our operating […]
The provision of surgery has been an essential component of comprehensive healthcare delivery worldwide for over a century. Nevertheless, 5 billion people worldwide are still affected by lack of access to safe surgical care. The issue remains a global health challenge that many practitioners and policy makers fail to acknowledge and act upon. Taking the […]
Dr. Mary Nabukenya is lecturer at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, and works as an anesthesiologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. She has helped to lead many perioperative safety training courses for anesthesia providers throughout the country. She spoke with Lifebox trustee, co-founder, and fellow anesthesiologist Dr. Isabeau Walker about the status […]
Although the Lifebox mission is to ensure that all operating rooms have access to a pulse oximeter, we know that they can play a lifesaving role outside of surgery. The boy, 16 months old and unconscious, was lying limp on the floor of the children’s ward at the Martha Primary Health Care Centre, spooned […]
Move over Shark Week, Capno Week is here. Join us to close the global capnography gap so that every anesthesia provider, no matter where they work, are equipped with a capnograph.
Gymnastics in service of illustrating a point (and charming the crowd) during his keynote speech at the Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Scientific Day in London last Friday, and he’s waving his arms enthusiastically. Intelligent data can do that – draw insight and outrage from dense statistics, and make you want to stand 10 feet tall […]
“It was a picture of a caesarean section, carried out by torchlight in a Mongolian ger using a Lifebox pulse oximeter, that got me, a London-based freelance journalist, a commission to spend a week in that country in October last year. The image was part of a presentation by Mongolia’s senior anaesthetist Dr Ganbold Lundeg […]
Exploring the Use of a Fit-for-Purpose Surgical Headlight in Sub-Saharan Africa: - Lifebox
If you can’t get to hospital, you can’t get an emergency caesarian section, or life-saving surgery after a road traffic accident. If supplies or engineers can’t reach the hospital, drugs will run out and equipment will break. Healthcare providers are forced to make terrible choices between treatment and unsafe care: “I am a junior anesthesiology […]
