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Construire une coalition pour la canographie : il est temps de combler le fossé mondial de la capnographie

Founded in 2011 by four leading global health organizations and chaired by Dr. Atul Gawande, the organization utilizes tools, training, and partnerships to help improve the delivery of safe surgery globally. Lifebox’s flagship program developed a low-cost and low-resource-adapted pulse oximeter for monitoring patients during anesthesia and has now put the Lifebox pulse oximeter in […]

Lifebox medical devices provide solutions to gaps in the safe provision of safe surgery and anesthesia in low-resource setting operating rooms

Lifebox events at WCA addressing global access to capnography with Smile Train and WFSA

Lifebox is now receiving applications for the 2020 McCaskey Safe Surgery Fellowship Programme. The aim of the programme is to develop a cohort of Ethiopian healthcare providers with expertise in Academic Global Surgery and Anaesthesia, with a focus on Quality Improvement. The programme supports 8 Ethiopian Fellows from within the four main professions within the […]

Global Access to Capnography Workshop Registration at WCA

The best thing about introductions are the questions you get back in return – after all, the surgical safety crisis is going to improve through dialogue, not monologue! – and when they have a question, the readership of the British Medical Journal is certainly not afraid to ask. During last year’s appeal for Lifebox, we got some […]

Lifebox works with in-country and international volunteers around the world to make our work possible.  Daniela Rebollo Salazar, a student at New York University’s (NYU) medical school, has just returned from Ethiopia, where she carried out a pulse oximeter needs assessment for Lifebox. In this interview, Daniela shares her experiences and thoughts on the oximetry […]

Lifebox's top five milestones from its work to improve the safety of surgery and anesthesia across low-resource settings in 2020 - from the distribution of 6,500 pulse oximeters to ten-years of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

The ASA and Lifebox have had a long and successful partnership, what makes this year’s resident challenge so unique?  The ASA-Lifebox relationship has become stronger and richer, substantially because of the sharing of staff support and on-line platforms specifically for the resident challenge. Why is the Resident challenge so important for improving the safety of […]