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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.

Maybe it’s no surprise that after years as the “neglected stepchild of public health,” our push to get safer surgery into the mainstream begins with a baby. Not just any baby: the children of our friends, family, colleagues whose lives were saved – whose lives began – with a safe operation.   My kids were born via […]

“If one of us can’t make it to the top, the other has to finish it.”  At the end of August, Dr Ed Fitzgerald and I fundraised for Lifebox through our climb up Mt Kilimanjaro. We had been waiting for this adventure for sometime, but I didn’t imagine we would have to wait another 5 […]

January 15, 2020 Full report: Checking In On the Checklist Press Release: English | Spanish | French Executive Summary: English | Spanish | French The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist—a 19-item list of prompts divided into three critical pause points—was created to prevent “never-events” (mistakes that should never happen in surgery), to promote safe administration of anesthesia, reduce surgical site infections, and improve teamwork and communication […]

The 2015/16 nurse anaesthesia students at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) graduated this week, and we sent them each a pulse oximeter to take on the next step. There are limited training opportunities for specialised anaesthesia training in the region, and these students are exceptional – nurses chosen and sent by their hospitals because of […]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards a Grand Challenges initiative to Lifebox to improve the safety of cesarean-sections in Ethiopia.

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, […]

Lifebox 2022 milestones: A year in review making surgery and anesthesia safer in 2022

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 […]