Ahead of International Nurses Day, it is crucial to spotlight the critical role of operating room nurses in ensuring surgical safety. Nurses are the backbone of successful surgical outcomes; they blend compassion and clinical expertise, managing every aspect of patient care from preoperative to recovery, making them the true unsung heroes in the OR. Today, […]
Tired of fighting a balance between work and home life? Talk to Félicité Mukeshimana. She’s an anaesthesia technician at a district hospital in Ruhango, a province in the south of Rwanda. Félicité has two daughters – the first aged five, and the second, Fiona, two-months old and of course still nursing. Nursing before the morning […]
Exploring the Use of a Fit-for-Purpose Surgical Headlight in Sub-Saharan Africa: - Lifebox
“We have a couple of monitors from the US. Lovely, lovely multi-parameter monitors – but they only work with a battery. And they didn’t send the battery.” “People send things with the best of intentions, but they’re not thinking about where these things are going to be used,” explained Dr Eva Manciles-Robert, when she visited […]
Dr. Susana Abrego is a pediatrician and anesthesiologist in El Salvador. She is also a champion of safe surgery and has helped to lead Lifebox’s Checklist Implementation Workshops in El Salvador and throughout Central America, supported by the IZUMI Foundation. Dr. Abrego spoke with Lifebox’s Kitty Jenkin on April 2, 2020. Kitty Jenkin: Please […]
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 […]
This spring we announced our second technical stream of work, in collaboration with the GE Foundation and local partners: reduction of surgical site infection. Led by Lifebox trustee and global surgery expert Tom Weiser, this 18 month project will be piloted in Ethiopia, and focusing on systematic ways to combat this devastating complication for surgical […]
Lifebox investors (aka incredible donors) aren’t looking for financial returns. They know our currency is safer surgery and anaesthesia, and that we measure ourselves against a different gold standard. How many pulse oximeters have we distributed this year? How many partnerships did we create? What percentage of healthcare workers leave a Lifebox training workshop more […]
“I am Mubarak Mohamed, Head of Anesthesia at Edna Adan University Hospital in the capital city of Somaliland – Hargeisa. The number of COVID-19 cases nationally has dropped, but we are waiting for the second wave.
Student groups who see global surgery in their future, OR teams curious to see how hospitals around the world are introducing the WHO Checklist, armchair travellers ready to rove from Uganda to Mongolia – get inspired by Emory med student Zayan Mahmooth’s reflection below, and click here to get started! “On October 9, 2017, people […]
