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Lifebox looks at our top milestones from 2021 making surgery and anesthesia safer through tools, training, and partnerships.  

The arrival of September here in New England brings with it a chill in the morning air, a switch from drinking iced coffee to a hot pumpkin spiced latte, and fresh pies with lots of whipped cream, although not necessarily for eating… I had the pleasure of attending Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Department of […]

American anaesthesiologist, Dr Gregory Sund is on a mission to help bring Lifebox pulse oximeters to every hospital in Burundi. We caught up with him recently and this is what we learned. What motivated you to support Lifebox? I was motivated to support Lifebox because I was able to see first-hand the massive importance of […]

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 […]

Lifebox is thrilled to partner with the Medsin Global Surgery National Working Group (NWG) and the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Students Section to host, ‘Beyond Borders: The Future of Global Surgery!’ This exciting conference to be held at the RSM on Saturday 9 April aims to introduce the next generation of clinicians to global […]

“I have just returned from a visit to the Children’s Heart Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the charity Chain of Hope, two organizations dedicated to helping children with congenital heart disease in low-income countries. Chain of Hope has introduced the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist as a quality standard for all their missions, and we […]

Supporting patients with long bone fracture in Malawi with the Lifebox Clean Cut program to reduce surgical infection in orthopedic patients

I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, specifically in Bulawayo the second largest city in the country affectionately known as ‘The City of Kings.’ For half my life I lived in this beautiful city, with its wide roads, tree lined boulevards and beautiful parks. Bulawayo was once the country’s industrial hub and is still called, […]

As a final year at medical school in the UK, one of the required reflections for my surgical rotation is on the use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. I observed the Checklist’s use in theatre as I had done many times before, with the familiar calls from the theatre staff: “Can we do time […]

Our work in Central America began in 2011, with large-scale oximetry distributions and training workshops across the region. In 2018, with the support of the IZUMI Foundation, and in coordination with the anesthesia societies of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, Lifebox launched two new programs, delivered twenty workshops, and trained over 1,000 healthcare providers […]