Global Surgery & Anesthesia

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http://www.lifebox.org/
Here is the Lifebox site address . As part of the WHO Safe Surgery initiative and follow up to the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Checklist, medical equipment manufacturers were challenged to design a durable and affordable pulse oximeter that could fill the pulse oximetry gap for surgery worldwide. This product is the result .

Every OR should have access to audible pulse oximetry.

Janet

Hi Juan

My name's Sarah, I'm the project manager for Lifebox (www.lifebox.org). Thanks for your inquiry.

Lifebox is a charity working to address the growing number of operations taking place worldwide without a pulse oximeter or basic safety checks.

There are more than 77,000 operating rooms worldwide that lack access to a pulse oximeter, the single most important piece of monitoring equipment in modern anaesthesia [see: Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data - Lancet 2010 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20598365] .

Lifebox has developed the ideal pulse oximeter for use in operating rooms in low-resource countries. It is robust, intuitive, runs on both disposable and rechargeable batteries, and comes with an education CD Rom packed with materials for classroom learning and self-teaching about pulse oximetry and the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

These materials are also available free for download on our website: www.lifebox.org/education

Each oximeter package costs $250 including delivery, with spare universal and neonatal probes available at $25 each.

Lifebox sells oximeters to facilities in low and lower-middle income countries, and raises funds to donate them where there is need.

Please do email ...

Hi Juan

My name's Sarah, I'm the project manager for Lifebox (www.lifebox.org). Thanks for your inquiry.

Lifebox is a charity working to address the growing number of operations taking place worldwide without a pulse oximeter or basic safety checks.

There are more than 77,000 operating rooms worldwide that lack access to a pulse oximeter, the single most important piece of monitoring equipment in modern anaesthesia [see: Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data - Lancet 2010 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20598365] .

Lifebox has developed the ideal pulse oximeter for use in operating rooms in low-resource countries. It is robust, intuitive, runs on both disposable and rechargeable batteries, and comes with an education CD Rom packed with materials for classroom learning and self-teaching about pulse oximetry and the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

These materials are also available free for download on our website: www.lifebox.org/education

Each oximeter package costs $250 including delivery, with spare universal and neonatal probes available at $25 each.

Lifebox sells oximeters to facilities in low and lower-middle income countries, and raises funds to donate them where there is need.

Please do email us at if you have more questions, or would like further information.

Best wishes,

Sarah