Mark your calendars! A busy week for safer surgery in Armenia, starting Sunday as the ‘Safety in Surgery and Updates of Obstetric Anaesthesia’ conference comes to Yerevan. The Armenian Society of Anaesthesiologists and Intensive Care Specialists (ASAICS) is joined by Kybele, Inc in the capital city, for refresher training with all eyes on a safer […]
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 […]
A Smile Train-Lifebox report on pulse oximetry access and impact in low- and middle-income countries
SINGAPORE- March 6, 2024 – In a significant move to improve safety for millions of people undergoing surgery each year, the world’s largest cleft-focused organization, Smile Train, and the safer surgery global nonprofit, Lifebox, have come together to urge health care systems and equipment standard guidelines, including those set by the World Health Organization (WHO) […]
Last month we… Celebrated our global network of partnerships with members of our co-founder the World Federation of Societies Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and later, Storified our place in this extraordinary anaesthesia community at the WFSA’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists Learned about the surgical instrument tray situation in Ethiopia with this stunning video Considered what an urgent role patients’ family members […]
You can cite the right statistics. You can read the New York Times over morning coffee. But stepping up to the operating room table while the sweat drips off your forehead? As colleagues in low-resource settings know, that’s when unsafe surgery gets personal. Just ask Steve Brosnan and Corinna Matt, consultants from the Luton & Dunstable University Hospital in […]
The 70,000 global pulse oximeter gap keeps us busy. Not a day goes by without a Lifebox oximeter winging its way across earth and sea and sky to anaesthesia providers in the most remote hospitals worldwide, delivering life-saving surgery without this life-saving equipment. But some days the skies are heavier than others! In October 2013, […]
Did you know that in 2006 the Rwandan government banned plastic bags in the capital city of Kigali? Today the grass, unpocked with litter, is buena vista green. Thanks to the civic and environmental efforts of the last few years, Kigali is one of the cleanest cities you could hope to visit. Another fact about […]
Move over Shark Week, Capno Week is here. Join us to close the global capnography gap so that every anesthesia provider, no matter where they work, are equipped with a capnograph.
Kris is a former Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) International based in Switzerland where she led an extensive governance reform process, while ensuring coordination of all facets of MSF’s worldwide humanitarian operations. Following nearly fifteen years with MSF, including a field deployment as part of MSF’s Ebola response team in Liberia, […]
