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In a field like global health, it’s common to be inspired by lofty goals, and nearly just as common to become disillusioned when we come up short. Too often, we prioritize targets over actions, theoretical solutions over practical ones, long-term aims over the short-term grit needed to make them possible. Too often, the only way […]
Last week, Mashable published a video from an organization called Cordaid that follows a pregnant woman on her way to a maternity clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The video is set in real time, so viewers have the rare opportunity to witness this journey in its entirety. Spoiler alert: it’s five hours long. […]
Check out our quarterly newsletter featuring highlights from our work during the spring of 2016!
We understand that the use of nitrous oxide in anesthesia is not common in many hospitals. For those who do use it, we have integrated safety features in the UAM that are important to prevent hypoxic mixtures. Modern anesthesia machines have safety features that prevent the delivery of gaseous mixtures with oxygen concentrations of less […]
By Dr. Lauri Romanzi, Erica Frenkel and Mira Mehes Married at age 17, Eva Aktar, a young woman in Bangladesh, became pregnant soon after. She underwent a harrowing 30-hour delivery, during which her full-term baby boy died. A cesarean delivery would almost certainly have saved the baby, but neither Eva nor her family could afford […]
Check out our quarterly newsletter featuring highlights from our work during the winter of 2016!
Last week, Gradian hosted a four-day training workshop for several biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs) who service the Universal Anaesthesia Machine around the world. Held at our manufacturing facility in the UK, the training brought together BMETs from Sierra Leone, Benin, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to learn the ins and outs of the UAM’s […]
Conventional continuous flow anesthesia machines include an oxygen flush function for quickly filling the circle system and for quickly removing anesthetic agent and elevating the oxygen percentage in the breathing circuit. The flush is activated by a non-locking button with a self-closing valve that when pressed supplies pure oxygen to the common gas outlet of […]
While most global health issues are, like the countries in which they’re prevalent, foreign to those of us in the West, few degrees separate us from a relative, friend or colleague who has or had cancer. With the majority of cancer cases occurring in high-income countries, it’s not hard to understand why. But while cancer […]
Since January 1st, Twitter has been all a-buzz with the hashtag #Its2016AndWeStillDont. Users have jumped aboard this trend to highlight a favorite cause or pressing injustice that we – ostensibly in the ‘royal’ sense – still don’t have. For some, it was universal education or healthcare. For others, it was equal pay for equal work. […]
