The 2015/16 nurse anaesthesia students at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) graduated this week, and we sent them each a pulse oximeter to take on the next step. There are limited training opportunities for specialised anaesthesia training in the region, and these students are exceptional – nurses chosen and sent by their hospitals because of […]
Whilst there have been improvements in health services and systems in the region, rural populations still have difficulty accessing basic health services. In Guatemala, it is estimated that basic health and nutrition services meet only 54% of the needs of the rural population (World Bank, Universal Healthcare on the rise in Latin America. 2013). Similarly, […]
Anesthesia provider, William Baraka, on patient safety and pulse oximetry in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact of a Lifebox pulse oximeter
NEW YORK – July 11, 2022 – Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft organization, today launches a new venture with Lifebox, the global nonprofit organization that makes surgery safer in low-resource settings, to distribute 11,000 pulse oximeters to 20 countries. This distribution, a key milestone of the Smile Train-Lifebox Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative, will […]
Smile Train-Lifebox tackle major gap in anesthesia safety in low-resource setting operating rooms with a high quality, affordable capnograph
Lifebox 2022 milestones: A year in review making surgery and anesthesia safer in 2022
Dr. Yifru on working where equipment is limited and the difference a capnograph makes for patients
Sometimes a picture – Sometimes a picture says it all. And you don’t need 1000 words to make a point. But sometimes there’s too much to be said. The problem is complicated, urgent, human, unfair, and the statistics are so vast that you can’t see past them. Sometimes the story is so much more than […]
Lifebox workshops are rooted in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and help improve surgical and anesthesia safety for perioperative providers around the world
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