This article emphasizes the pressing need for worldwide access to capnography, a critical monitoring tool for ensuring patient safety during anesthesia, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Unlike pulse oximetry, capnography’s adoption has lagged due to high costs and limited government support. The Global Capnography Project (GCAP) and the Smile Train-Lifebox Capnography initiative aim […]
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 […]
Robert is the director of Diamedica, a manufacturer of anaesthesia equipment fit for purpose in low-resource settings. He recently returned from Chad, in central Africa, where he took a Lifebox pulse oximeter to leave alongside the Glostavent anaesthesia machine he went to install. He sent us an update after his return: A few hours by […]
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, […]
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 […]
This is a photo of Dr Nikhil Rastogi, director of undergraduate anesthesia at the Ottawa Hospital in Canada. It was taken last year at Cotacachi Hospital in Ecuador, where Lifebox donated a pulse oximeter through Medical Ministry International. He seems quite healthy, but look at the Lifebox pulse oximeter (and the knowing smile) he’s wearing: 92% […]
…begins once upon a time late summer of last year, at a hospital in Nigeria, when a very dynamic doctor placed an order to purchase 75 pulse oximeters and 75 spare probes. And this is what happened next. We sent the doctor an invoice, the hospital made a bank transfer, and less than 48 hours later […]
It’s a magnificent proposition. Go on: design the world you want your children to grow up in. Just remember that you can’t choose their sex, their race, their long- or latitude. And you don’t know their characters, their ideas, their – well, you don’t know anything about what they really want, do you? You just […]
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, […]
It’s an exciting opportunity for UK-based medical students, or students from other disciplines with a passion for global health, to develop their professional experience and leadership – while raising awareness of this critical, emerging field. Apply to be a Lifebox-SfGH representative by explaining why you would best fit the role in 250 words to [email protected] […]
