NGOs work best when they work together – and we’ve been working with Smile Train for as long as we can remember. From our earliest days to our fifth birthday, we’ve teamed up to put the safety of the surgical patient – and the support of colleague clinicians – first. We were lucky enough to catch up […]
Last month we… Longform Lifeboxed in a beautiful feature about our work in Mongolia and India, as part of Mosaic Science’s Great Ideas series. It features smart innovations that changed and saved lives around the globe, and our story was even picked up by The Atlantic Magazine and The Independent Hung out behind the scenes […]
Following our special session at Anesthesiology 2012 in Washington D.C. today, we are delighted to make available our new manual for how to deliver Lifebox training in the field. This draws on lessons learned from work across Africa, South East Asia and Latin America, and provides you with details of how you can run a […]
We are looking to recruit an exceptional anaesthetist (anaesthesiologist) to undertake a Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, Northern Tanzania. The Fellowship will involve developing and delivering a sustainable and high-impact QI project in collaboration with local colleagues, in addition to taking part in delivery of anaesthesia care. We’re looking for someone to […]
If you pay attention to the Lifebox latest news, you’ll recall that this oximeter and this car share a birthday as well as a favourite colour. What better reason do you need for a cycle! This Sunday, we’ll be cheering on our friends as they zip up their London to Brighton for Lifebox shirts and […]
Celebrities may not read their reviews, but at Lifebox, we do. Avidly. (Don’t you bet the celebrities do too?) We want to know what delegates found most useful – or not – about our workshops. We want to know how colleagues are doing this week with the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist at our pilot site in […]
Caroline Kilduff is a recent graduate from Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry. She’s also a talented graphic designer, helping Lifebox with such visual feasts as our student toolkit, BMA volunteer poster and annual review! Back from her elective in the West Indies, in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, we […]
Distributing pulse oximeters across Afghanistan for essential monitoring of COVID-19 patients in rural areas.
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 […]
Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery is a broad area of specialization that cuts across race, tribe and gender. But the impact of the surgical revolution on the outcome of breast cancer – the most common female cancer – has been priceless. Breast conservation has reduced negative body image issues, […]
