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Science without borders, numbers with intent

Gymnastics in service of illustrating a point (and charming the crowd) during his keynote speech at the MĂ©decins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Scientific Day in London last Friday, and he’s waving his arms enthusiastically. Intelligent data can do that  – draw insight and outrage from dense statistics, and make you want to stand 10 feet tall […]

Thank you to Masimo and Teleflex

Lifebox welcomes industry support to the ESA Lifebox Campaign: Masimo and Teleflex make a generous contribution and a clear commitment to safer anaesthesia for all Safe anaesthesia is fundamental to safe surgery – but a global gap in access to pulse oximetry puts safe anaesthesia and surgery out of reach for millions worldwide. The European […]

Impact of WHO’s Surgical Safety Checklist-Based Program on Cleft-lip and Palate Repair Outcomes in LMICs—The CLEAN CLEFT Program

Abstract Background: “Clean Cleft” (CC) is an adaptation of the Lifebox Clean Cut program, designed to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs) in cleft lip and palate repairs. It focuses on 6 key processes: hand and site decontamination, surgical linen integrity, instrument sterility, timely antibiotic use, gauze counting, and WHO Surgical Safety Checklist compliance. The study […]

The Lifebox-Smile Train Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative for Pediatric Surgery in Africa

The Lifebox-Smile Train Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative addresses critical gaps in pediatric surgical care across Sub-Saharan Africa, where a lack of trained personnel, inadequate infrastructure, and limited access to essential medical technologies put millions of children at risk. By equipping hospitals with vital tools such as pulse oximeters and capnographs and providing specialized training […]

Never a day at the beach

The Togolese Republic stretches narrowly north 600 km into West Africa, with Burkina Faso at its head and the Bight of Benin swirling at its feet in the capital city of LomĂ©. But it’s never a day at the beach for the staff at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) in LomĂ© city centre. The sprawling CHU […]

The Equipment Graveyard

This isn’t quite as morbid as it sounds, but it’s certainly depressing.  Harry is talking about equipment graveyards – warehouses, cupboards, row after row of medical devices that are theoretically useful but practically useless in the context of the environment they’ve been sent to. “There’s no maintenance, so things break down,” Harry explains, of the […]

Just so splendid

Lifebox sent an oximeter and the hospital found funding to buy some additional units. But Benson told us some very difficult stories about his anaesthesia practice, and we knew that these few units wouldn’t be enough to keep patients safely monitored in the operating rooms across the region. That was back in October.  Coming on for […]

GE Foundation grant

Lifebox receives $500,000 GE Foundation grant for ground-breaking Surgical Infection Prevention Initiative. In 2010 we launched our pulse oximetry programme, delivering environment-appropriate equipment and training to ORs worldwide – and safeguarding more than 10 million lives Today we are thrilled to announce our next target in the fight to make every operating room a safer […]

A Presidential COSECSA conversation

The risk is high: an invisible threat to patients who’ve given everything they’ve got to get to a hospital, reversing the life-saving work of surgical teams striving to save them. Our Clean Cut programme, piloting in Ethiopia, aims to develop simple and scalable inventions that use training, monitoring and evaluation to make surgery safer. We […]