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2022 Lifebox Annual Report - ten years saving lives through safer surgery and anesthesia
New study shows Lifebox’s Clean Cut reduces leading cause of mortality and morbidity Today, Lifebox announces significant results for reducing surgical site infections (SSIs) by nearly half in low-resource hospital systems. A new study published in the British Journal of Surgery reports the results of Clean Cut – a Lifebox program that engages surgical teams to address the causes of SSIs.
Lifebox: Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions, Dr. Molina. Why was it important for Lifebox and Ariadne Labs to initiate a report like “Checking in on the Checklist” at this time? What did you hope to understand about Checklist use over the past decade? Dr. George Molina: Now more than 10 years […]
Dr Surajit Giri has a special place in Lifebox’s heart. His facility – Demow Community Health Centre – was the first to receive a Lifebox pulse oximeter as part of our grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. He also single-handedly organised the first ever Lifebox workshop in India. And with his mantra of “Safe anaesthesia, […]
“Your donation held us in good stead during the daunting struggle with COVID-19.” The impact of a donation of pulse oximeters to Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (BMH) in Tanzania during the peak of the pandemic.
Lifebox is celebrating ten – plus one – years of saving lives through safer surgery. As we mark more than a decade of making surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide, we wanted to share the milestones that we have achieved, together, so far. Thank you to every one of you who has been part of the […]
But the civil wars of the 1980s and 90s wrecked lives and infrastructure. The school of anaesthesia in the capital Monrovia closed down, and the one in Phebe was always on the retreat to ‘safer areas.’ Training halted and many anaesthetists were amongst those killed. Today there are just 22 nurse anaesthetists for a population […]
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.
Here we learn more about his mission – “safe anaesthesia equals safer surgery.” Can you talk about some of the challenges that anaesthesia providers face in delivering safe surgical care in your region? If you see today’s newspaper in India you will find a story: “Death of 36 children because of lack of oxygen in […]
