leading anesthesia providers from across the world shared their experiences on issues relating to pulse oximetry impact in anesthesia care, remaining gaps in oximetry access and identified priorities for safe anesthesia care going forward – including the issue of pulse oximetry accuracy in darker skin tones.
Pediatric pulmonologist, Dr. Eric D. McCollum discusses oximetry, oxygen and Lesotho's COVID-19 response with Lifebox.
Anesthesiologist, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga, is fighting to make anesthesia and surgery safer for every patient.
Kris is passionate about humanitarian action, with a career spanning New York, Geneva, Monrovia and beyond. She saw the scale of the global surgery and anaesthesia crisis – and the critical need to address it – long before she knew Lifebox, and we’re utterly delighted that she’ll be leading the team. Time to get to […]
Lifebox: Why was it important at this time for Lifebox and Ariadne Labs to initiate Checking In On the Checklist? With the Checklist being over ten years old, what were you looking to achieve? Alex Haynes: Reflecting on ten years of Checklist uptake around the world, we realized there was a lot to understand about […]
In 2010 we sent him our first pulse oximeter. Lifebox wasn’t even Lifebox back then – it was the Global Pulse Oximetry Project, fresh from a worldwide tendering process led by WHO and the WFSA for an ideal monitor to thrive in low-resource settings. We were perched on a desk in a third floor room […]
Get raising funds for safer anesthesia and surgery worlwide with the ASA Resident Challenge for Lifebox. Resident programs all over the United States compete to fundraise for Lifebox. An appointed resident leader can visit the campaign website and sign up their team to begin building a custom landing page.
You’re an active member of the InciSioN advocacy team, and the student global surgery movement. Why is it important for doctors of the future to be involved? Global surgery to me means improving timely access to safe, quality and affordable surgical care for everyone, irrespective of age, status, ethnicity, nationality or race. Five billion people […]
Lifebox Australia and New Zealand (Lifebox ANZ) is a consortium of partners working to strengthen anaesthesia and surgical safety in the Asia-Pacific region.
In June, Lifebox had a chance meeting in Boston with the Namibia based Dr Leonard Kabongo. We learnt pretty quickly that when he’s involved, stuff gets done…and quickly. Just six weeks later, I was on a plane heading to the capital of Namibia, Windhoek, to launch our safer surgery work. The word ‘Namib’ comes from […]
