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New Research Shows Lasting Impact of Lifebox Clean Cut Program - published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery.

A global survey by Lifebox – in collaboration with Smile Train and Jhpiego – has found severe lack of essential personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection prevention protocols, putting perioperative providers at risk of COVID-19 infection. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) – where most surgical procedures are essential – perioperative providers have continued to provide essential surgeries and COVID-19 […]

When you were growing up what did you want to be? When I was growing up I wanted to be doctor. Just like any child, I wanted to be doctor but didn’t know the reason, as time went by, my reasons got clearer and clearer. What motivated you to become an anaesthesiologist? I never planned […]

Lifebox announces the appointment of Pauline Philip as Interim Chair of its Global Governance Council. Pauline is one of the founders of Lifebox and as Director of Patient Safety at the World Health Organization (WHO) was instrumental in developing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

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 […]

For the second year running the South University Anesthesiologist Assistant Program held its annual Chili Cook-Off to raise funds for Lifebox. We were keen to find out how this tasty fundraiser (which has become a firm tradition) started, so we caught up with two of the event organisers, Haley Herrington and Taylor Kiley and this […]

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 […]

Dr. Susana Abrego is a pediatrician and anesthesiologist in El Salvador. She is also a champion of safe surgery and has helped to lead Lifebox’s Checklist Implementation Workshops in El Salvador and throughout Central America, supported by the IZUMI Foundation. Dr. Abrego spoke with Lifebox’s Kitty Jenkin on April 2, 2020.   Kitty Jenkin: Please […]

Tired of fighting a balance between work and home life? Talk to Félicité Mukeshimana.  She’s an anaesthesia technician at a district hospital in Ruhango, a province in the south of Rwanda. Félicité has two daughters – the first aged five, and the second, Fiona, two-months old and of course still nursing.  Nursing before the morning […]

Celebrities may not read their reviews, but at Lifebox, we do.   Avidly. (Don’t you bet the celebrities do too?) We want to know what delegates found most useful – or not – about our workshops. We want to know how colleagues are doing this week with the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist at our pilot site in […]