Key relationships: Global CEO and Board; Development Advisory Council members; senior staff and external stakeholders Salary & benefits: Commensurate with experience + excellent benefits. INTRODUCTION Lifebox is a global non-profit organization registered in the United States and the United Kingdom dedicated to improving surgical safety in low and middle-income countries. Founded in 2011 by the […]
The AAAC brings together anaesthesia providers from across the continent, and partners from around the world. But what makes a valuable partnership, and what are some concrete steps international groups can take to be most supportive in the next three years? We asked three incredible champions for safe anaesthesia – Dr Mwemezi Kaino, Head of […]
Dr Traudl Elsholz would be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed and overworked. She’s one of only three medical anaesthetists in the entire country of Eritrea. That’s in addition to the 37 diploma nurses who have spent between 6 months and 2 years training in anaesthesia to meet the needs of 5 million people. “As you can […]
Our work to implement the Surgical Safety Checklist in Rwanda was featured by BBC News this week. The piece has been featured on the BBC World Service and was the fifth most read on the BBC website on 13 July. We are delighted that a major broadcaster is drawing attention to the critical issues faced […]
We recently caught up with safer surgery advocate Dr Sohel Ahmed, former President of the Sudanese Doctors Union of Ireland (SDUI) to discuss the organisation’s work in supporting anaesthesia providers in the country, and this is what we learned. What motivated you to collaborate with Lifebox? My colleagues and I formed SDUI with an important […]
Since 2012 at Euroanaesthesia in Paris, the generosity and commitment of ESA members and membership societies has helped to support thousands of safer surgeries through Lifebox’s equipment and training projects – across and beyond the continent. But at Euroanaesthesia 2016 in London, the ESA-Lifebox Europe Project took Lifebox’s fifth anniversary celebration to a whole new […]
What does the Ellison Pierce lecture mean to you, and what will you be speaking about? The Ellison Pierce lecture is not only an opportunity for me to recognize one of my mentors and giants in anesthesia safety but to try to highlight the connections between the challenges in the safety of surgery globally and […]
“We have a couple of monitors from the US. Lovely, lovely multi-parameter monitors – but they only work with a battery. And they didn’t send the battery.” “People send things with the best of intentions, but they’re not thinking about where these things are going to be used,” explained Dr Eva Manciles-Robert, when she visited […]
Getting to know the anaesthesia community over the last few years is just one of the privileges we’ve had, as we work towards safer surgery and anaesthesia worldwide. It’s a wide-ranging, dynamic – and generous! – group. Actually, it’s really more of a group of groups, each one focused on a particular aspect (research, paediatrics, […]
Tackling antibiotic overuse in surgery with an antibiotic stewardship program to support safer surgical care in low-resource settings
