Access to healthcare is limited by a lack of resources and staff with only 0.7 physicians and 1.1 nurses per 1,000 population. Of its 15,500 operating rooms, over 7,000 lack pulse oximetry – leaving millions of people to undergo surgery at great risk. So it will come as no surprise that India is a key […]
Boston holds a special place in our hearts as our co-founders Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, along with so many of our council members and supporters are based there. So we’re looking forward to catching up with our colleagues leading the way for safer global anaesthesia and surgery. As […]
Earlier this year our Honourary Clinical Advisor, Dr Ed Fitzgerald travelled to Rwanda to deliver essential surgical training and follow-up on Checklist and pulse oximeter use at Kibagabaga hospital. In this blog first published on our co-founder the WFSA’s website he reflects on his trip. One of the remarkable aspects of returning to Rwanda regularly over the […]
The Lifebox oximeter meets USA Food and Drug Administration standards for accuracy, extensive tests show. “Accuracy of the Lifebox pulse oximeter during hypoxia in healthy volunteers,” published this month in the medical journal Anaesthesia, finds that the Lifebox model detects hypoxia at a degree of accuracy and bias that is comparable to the FDA-approved pulse […]
Next month Lifebox UK Executive Director Kristine Stave becomes our Global Chief Operating Officer. Kristine joined Lifebox in 2011, after several years working in Patient Safety at the World Health Organization. Time for a re-introduction… You joined Lifebox before it even officially had a name. What drew you from WHO to such a new initiative? […]
But we know there’s more work to be done, in surgery – and other fields where a pulse oximeter can make the difference between life and death. Thanks to support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we launched a major new venture for Lifebox last year. Our focus: targeted redesign of the Lifebox oximeter and neonatal […]
Saturday 12 December is Universal Health Coverage Day (UHC), a rallying call to action to ensure global access to affordable and quality health care services for all when needed. Health for all? We say: yes! So do our colleagues in Zambia on the frontline of surgery and anaesthesia practice. And so does the World Health […]
All roads lead to Zambia this week, as we co-host the 4th Lifebox and SAFE Obstetric Anaesthesia course in Ndola, the third-largest city. We are so proud to be collaborating with our co-founders the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), alongside the Zambian Ministry of Health and the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) […]
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 […]
What is Corbis’s mission? Corbis Sussex is a student-faculty multidisciplinary group comprising individuals with global health interests based in Brighton. Our objective is to foster the growth of a cohesive, multi-disciplinary, global health community at the University of Sussex, BSMS and Brighton area, engaging with partners in the wider health and development sector and to […]
