All super teams have origin stories, and Lifebox is no different. If you read the history you’ll see that before we were us, we were many other things. Consulting on development of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. Drafting strategy for the Global Pulse Oximetry Project (GPOP). Writing a manifesto. We were a group of clinicians, […]
Lifebox Australia and New Zealand (Lifebox ANZ) is a consortium of partners working to strengthen anaesthesia and surgical safety in the Asia-Pacific region.
Road traffic accidents. Congenital heart defects. Maternal mortality. Pneumonia. This is the permafrost of public health, killing tens of millions of people worldwide each year. But there’s a singular piece of medical equipment increasingly recognised as critical in the resistance. It enhances treatments and reduces deaths from each of these conditions, and it’s called a pulse oximeter. […]
Lifebox and COAST light up operating rooms worldwide with the Lifebox Light: a low-cost, high quality headlight to make surgery safer in low-resource operating rooms
Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery offers an extraordinary healthcare intervention: delving into a patients’ vital organs with the knife, with benevolent intent. But the surgeon’s impact is holistic: our work goes beyond the operative and into a deeper understanding of principles of medicine to facilitate non- operative management of […]
Anesthesiologist, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga, is fighting to make anesthesia and surgery safer for every patient.
The latest press releases and publications from Lifebox; the leading global nonprofit tackling the crisis of unsafe surgery.
Lifebox events at WCA addressing global access to capnography with Smile Train and WFSA
A coalition of global health organizations have united to address a critical gap in anesthesia safety: the lack of capnography in low-resource settings, a situation that is putting countless lives at risk.
