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

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Sometimes a picture – Sometimes a picture says it all. And you don’t need 1000 words to make a point. But sometimes there’s too much to be said. The problem is complicated, urgent, human, unfair, and the statistics are so vast that you can’t see past them. Sometimes the story is so much more than […]

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 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 […]

Lifebox workshops are rooted in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and help improve surgical and anesthesia safety for perioperative providers around the world

Whilst there have been improvements in health services and systems in the region, rural populations still have difficulty accessing basic health services. In Guatemala, it is estimated that basic health and nutrition services meet only 54% of the needs of the rural population (World Bank, Universal Healthcare on the rise in Latin America. 2013). Similarly, […]

Global Access to Capnography Workshop Registration at WCA

Anesthesia provider, William Baraka, on patient safety and pulse oximetry in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact of a Lifebox pulse oximeter

Dr. Yifru on working where equipment is limited and the difference a capnograph makes for patients