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 […]
New Lifebox publication in BJS on antibiotic use in low-resource setting surgery
Dr. Takuo Aoyagi’s invention of the pulse oximeter has saved the lives of millions of people across the globe.
Lifebox sent an oximeter and the hospital found funding to buy some additional units. But Benson told us some very difficult stories about his anaesthesia practice, and we knew that these few units wouldn’t be enough to keep patients safely monitored in the operating rooms across the region. That was back in October. Coming on for […]
New Research Shows Lasting Impact of Lifebox Clean Cut Program - published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery.
Dr. Patange is a consultant anesthesiologist in Nanded, Maharashtra, India, and responded to our request for COVID-19 information in his community with the following note and photos. “I am Dr. Someshwar Patange, a consultant anesthesiologist working in Nanded city, Maharashtra, India. I have been working with Lifebox since 2016. Together, we have conducted many […]
Lifebox receives $500,000 GE Foundation grant for ground-breaking Surgical Infection Prevention Initiative. In 2010 we launched our pulse oximetry programme, delivering environment-appropriate equipment and training to ORs worldwide – and safeguarding more than 10 million lives Today we are thrilled to announce our next target in the fight to make every operating room a safer […]
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, […]
'One Crucial Piece of Equipment': Improving anesthesia monitoring with The Smile Train-Lifebox Capnograph.
They kick up enough fuss about the Oscars and those things roll around every 12 months. At Lifebox we’re much more excited about the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA), which takes place on an exclusive four-year basis. And suddenly WCA 2012, hosted this time in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is less than a week away! The congress, […]
