“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 […]
Usually it’s parents who brag about their offspring, not the other way around. But at Lifebox, we’ve always been proud of our roots. Our co-founder, the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) is an extraordinary organisation: the umbrella body of anaesthesia societies worldwide, it’s a unique collaboration for better standards, education and advocacy across […]
Pioneer: “a person who is among the first to research and develop a new area of knowledge or activity.” This definition stood out as we received the news that Dr Takuo Aoyagi, a Senior Manager at Nihon Kohden, was recently honoured for pioneering services to pulse oximetry. Photo credit: Engineering and Technology History Wiki True, […]
New Research Shows Lasting Impact of Lifebox Clean Cut Program - published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery.
It’s called ‘global surgery’ because there’s not a single health system in the world that can support a healthy population without providing surgical care; but that doesn’t mean there’s a one size fits all solution. Different countries have different needs – different approaches – and different groups championing routes to the same conclusion: that access […]
The ongoing, severe shortage of protective equipment and training gaps should be immediately remediated to prevent the loss of healthcare workers in lower-income environments, both from the virus and from the burnout resulting from chronically unsafe working conditions. Authors: Starr, Nichole MD, MPH; Capo-Chichi, Nina MBBS; Moore, Jolene MBChB; Shreckengost, Constance Harrell MD, PhD; Fernandez, […]
We spoke to designer Brenda Roberts Costa, who runs digital creative agency Synchroma, about her experience bringing the Lifebox oximeter ‘how to’ to life. The video needed to translate technical concepts into simple visuals. How did you approach this complicated brief? Coming into this project with no previous knowledge of the Lifebox oximeter contributed significantly […]
It seemed like fate that I landed in India exactly ten years to the day that I first arrived as a fresh-faced backpacker. One decade later, and hopefully a little wiser, I was back as part of my remit at Lifebox – working with healthcare teams across this vast country to make anaesthesia safer. Two […]
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 […]
