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Lifebox is a global non-profit tackling the global crisis of unsafe surgery. Through tools, training, and partnerships, we make surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide.

Lifebox Global COVID-19 response supports healthcare providers respond to the pandemic with tools and strategies for safe surgical, anesthesia, and COVID-19 care, including training, PPE, and pulse oximetry distribution.

Nine out of every ten people in the regions where Lifebox works cannot access basic surgical care. Surgical and anesthesia care are integral components of a health system, with a third of the global burden of disease requiring surgery.

The latest press releases and publications from Lifebox; the leading global nonprofit tackling the crisis of unsafe surgery.

On World Pneumonia Day, we spoke to him about this critical work – and its potential to revolutionise diagnosis and treatment of an infection killing nearly a million children a year. A pulse oximeter is a non-invasive device for monitoring the level of oxygen in your blood stream, more often thought of as a hospital tool […]

Pulse oximeters are a critical tool in patient triage and clinical decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as ongoing COVID-19 care. During the pandemic, Lifebox distributed more than 8,000 pulse oximeters for COVID-19 patient management.

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 […]

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.

When we first heard about the Boston Lifebox Challenge earlier this year, we knew better than to get caught in the crossfire!  We watched as ideas, enthusiasm and events ricocheted across the city, and are thrilled to duck and share, with our thanks, the below article  straight from the website of one of the challengers: “When […]

Lifebox is dedicated to providing a highly accurate pulse oximeter to clinicians. As part of this effort, we are committed to the continuing evaluation of devices that we distribute. The most recent testing done by the Hypoxia Lab at UCSF in February 2021 reveals that the Lifebox Acare AH-M1 meets the accuracy levels specified by international standards and […]