Happy new year! We got a lot of beautiful cards and messages of season’s greetings from around the world as 2016 approached – but two of our favourite notes arrived from Uganda, just before the festive season. Thanks to the Lifeboxes for Rio campaign led by friends and co-founders at the Association of Anaesthetists of Great […]
Gymnastics in service of illustrating a point (and charming the crowd) during his keynote speech at the Médecins 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 […]
From western India, to the east. Next on the itinerary was the north-eastern state of Bihar. As the traffic of the state’s capital – Patna – gave way to dirt roads and palm-studded countryside, the rugged beauty of Bihar was breathtaking. But eighty-nine percent of Bihar’s 104 million people live in rural areas, and health […]
A multidisciplinary workshop for surgical teams to reduce the risk of infection through use of the COVID-19 Surgical Patient Checklist
Was it the pledge card in every delegate pack? The session on anaesthesia safety and the devastating impact that limited resources and training can have in the ORs of low-income countries? The friendly competition between tables at the gala dinner in Perth? It certainly wasn’t just the wine. “Aussies and Kiwis are naturally generous,” explained Profesor Kate […]
Lifebox 2022 milestones: A year in review making surgery and anesthesia safer in 2022
Safe surgery is a global concern and we want to know what it means to you. Lifebox is pleased to announce the launch of our first competition, an opportunity to win prizes, raise the level of debate about access to safe surgery, and see your work published online for a global audience. Title : Safe […]
Lack of access to equipment and training makes surgery desperately unsafe; but obstructed labour, life-threatening bleeding, and fistula are natural risks of childbirth and surgery is the only possible treatment. The same for breast cancer or cervical cancer, which strike women in the prime of their lives. A staggering 80% of emergency operations in low-resource […]
Lifebox pulse oximeter implementation in Malawi: evaluation of educational outcomes and impact on oxygen desaturation episodes during anaesthesia followed up a donation of 86 Lifebox pulse oximeters to anaesthesia providers in Malawi. Beyond showing a sustained improvement in test scores before and after training, the study proves something even more critical: that knowledge is being put to […]
Understanding and improving pulse oximeter accuracy across skin pigmentations for the safe provision of anesthesia
