How to use Helix Anesthesia
Short walkthroughs, narrated by the CRNA who built the app. Most are under a minute. If you are looking for clinical reading rather than the app itself, the clinical answers are over here.
What Helix Anesthesia is 1:36
A tour of the app from the clinician who built it — what is in it, who it is for, and how it is organized for the OR rather than for a textbook.
Signing in 0:43
There is no password to create or remember. Enter your email, and either tap the link that arrives or type the eight-digit code. You stay signed in afterwards.
Installing on iPhone 0:52
There is no App Store listing yet, so on iPhone the app runs in Safari. Add to Home Screen is what turns it into a real icon that opens full screen — and Safari never offers it on its own, so this shows where to find it.
Redeeming a student code 0:52
If your school or department gave you a code, sign up with your school email address — program codes are tied to that domain, and a personal address means waiting on manual approval. Then Settings, Redeem a code, and your plan changes on the same screen.
Linking your academy account 1:11
The academy and the app sign in separately. Generate a code on the academy site, type it into Settings, and the app starts showing your clinical reading, the groups you have finished, your hours and your certificates — which stay on your academy account, not on the phone.
Answers you can check 0:31
Ask Helix searches the app’s own reference library first and cites the passage it used. Tapping a citation opens the exact screen it quotes, so you can check the claim rather than trust it.
Inside a block page 1:33
Every block opens on the same five pages, so this walks one of them: the overview, the labeled illustration and the needle-deposit schematic beneath it, the technique step by step, dosing per agent with the volume for that block, and the risks worth reading before the first one of the day. Interscalene is the example.
Local anesthetic toxicity 0:42
Finding the LAST page under pressure: the recognition criteria, the lipid emulsion dosing worked against the patient’s weight, and what changes about the resuscitation.
Malignant hyperthermia 0:47
The crisis checklist as it works in the moment — dantrolene dosing, the sequence of tasks, and the parts people forget once the room is busy.
The weight plausibility check 0:40
What happens when an entered weight does not fit the patient described. The calculators warn before they compute, and record what was shown and what you chose.
Reporting a problem 0:39
How to flag anything that looks wrong, from a typo to a dose you disagree with. It reaches the clinician who maintains the content, not a ticket queue.
Reference information for licensed clinicians and students. Not a medical device. Verify against institutional protocol and current package inserts.