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 […]
Dr. Renda Suleman on the transformation and immediate impact of capnography on patient care
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, […]
A global survey has found severe lack of essential personal protective equipment and infection prevention protocols, putting perioperative providers at risk of COVID-19 infection.
Tell us a bit about yourself – what’s your background, and why did you join the Lifebox team? I’m currently a general surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco. After graduating from college and earning my Masters in Public Health, I joined the Peace Corps in Ethiopia to focus on projects ranging from […]
Watch the video on the VIA home page, which focuses on Vanderbilt’s relationship with the Kijabe Hospital, in Kenya. Panning down crowded hospital corridors, the images are stark and the voices are shocked. “What do you do with a girl that needs a caesarean section?” VIA director Dr Mark Newton recalls asking a clinician at […]
Medical students are the future of global surgery. Chronology, multiplied by epidemiology, to the power of social media – it’s a fierce equation that looks to balance the inequity in surgical and anaesthetic access, safety, participation and voice. Last month we saw the future in action, as Lifebox teamed up with the Medsin National Global Surgical Working Group […]
In this study, enumerating the steps involved in surgical infection prevention using a process mapping technique helped identify opportunities for improving adherence and plotting contextually relevant solutions, resulting in superior compliance with antiseptic standards. Simplifying these process maps into an adaptable tool could be a powerful strategy for improving safe surgery delivery in low- and […]
This study found that pulse oximetry was generally deemed valuable by health care providers (HCPs) for use as a spot-check device in a range of pediatric low-income clinical settings. Areas highlighted a challenges by HCPs, and therefore opportunities for redesign, included battery charging and durability, probe fit and sensitivity in pediatric populations. Authors: Carina King, […]
