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Smile Train and Lifebox launch work for a capnography device specifically designed for low-resource settings to improve anesthesia safety for children around the world.

Kris is passionate about humanitarian action, with a career spanning New York, Geneva, Monrovia and beyond. She saw the scale of the global surgery and anaesthesia crisis – and the critical need to address it – long before she knew Lifebox, and we’re utterly delighted that she’ll be leading the team. Time to get to […]

Although your Lifebox Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre is just beginning, you could say your relationship with the hospital goes way back… Yes – it came about in a strange way!  I read about KCMC when I was 16.  There were two books that I found so inspirational – one called Half the Sky, […]

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.

What is Clean Cut for Cleft and how will it make surgery for children with cleft safer? Clean Cut for Cleft is a new program – launched today by Smile Train and Lifebox – to tackle one of the greatest risks to surgical patients: infection. 

Ahead of International Nurses Day, it is crucial to spotlight the critical role of operating room nurses in ensuring surgical safety. Nurses are the backbone of successful surgical outcomes; they blend compassion and clinical expertise, managing every aspect of patient care from preoperative to recovery, making them the true unsung heroes in the OR. Today, […]

“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.

Team CLEFT is a new workshop by Smile Train and Lifbox designed for nurses, anesthesia providers and surgeons which supports Cleft teams to learn together.

He also single-handedly organised the first ever Lifebox workshop in India. And with his mantra of “Safe anaesthesia, Safe Surgery, Safe Patient” it’s hard to resist his enthusiasm and can-do attitude when it comes to all things surgery related. Here we chat to Surajit about his quest to improve the safety of anaesthesia in his […]

This study found a high cancellation rate, most attributable to late start times leading to delays for the remainder of cases, and lack of preoperative patient preparation. In a setting with a high unmet burden of surgical disease, operating room (OR) efficiency must be maximized with improved patient evaluation workflows, adequate OR staffing and commitment […]