Morning setup

Prepare the room

Arrive by 7:00, find your resident, and set up with them. Here’s exactly what that looks like at LA General.

The complete morning setup under the anesthesia machine: airway equipment, five labeled and capped syringes, and a wrapped IV kit. — What done looks like: airway, induction syringes and IV kit laid out for review.

Room checklist

MSMAIDS ⇄ DAMBESTIA — track what’s prepared and what needs review.

Workstation atlas

Every bin, drawer and cable, pinned on real photos.

Photo lessons

Do them in this order. Tap Follow along inside any lesson for a full-screen, one-step-at-a-time view you can use at the Pyxis.

1 · 7 steps · ~4 min
Spike and prime a fluid bag
A bag of the right fluid, spiked, chamber filled and the line fully de-aired, hanging and ready for your resident.
2 · 8 steps · ~5 min
Set up the airway
ETT with stylet and a checked (fully deflated) cuff, tape, oral airway and a working laryngoscope — laid out together.
3 · 6 steps · ~6 min
Prepare and label induction syringes
Five correctly sized, double-labeled, capped syringes — drawn up only with your resident.
4 · 6 steps · ~4 min
Assemble an IV start kit
A self-contained bundle your resident can grab: three catheters, a primed flush on an extension, prep and gauze — wrapped in the tourniquet.