SAWW supports research to improve access to safe, affordable anaesthesia in poor countries.
We have supported award-winning research to harness solar power in order to produce medical oxygen (SOLOX), and to develop an oxygen reservoir system. Winner of 2017 AAGBI Prize for Innovation in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain.
We helped to develop a cost-effective method of pain relief in labour using a novel sevoflurane inhaler device. Read more in these publications
The Sevonox Study. Presented at the 2016 World Congress of Anaesthesiology.
In 2015 we won the Runners-up Prize for AAGBI Innovation in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain for work on a ventilator for use in low-resource settings.