Clinician's Guide - Bio-Medical Instruments, Inc.

2. Begin a Training Session
Please also see detail around page 30 “Staff Quick-Reference”
i. Start Open Display Session
• Enter your name and choose “Define New Session” then take these steps:
1. On left side under your encoder name & channel set highlight the appropriate
channel set: e.g., PI MT 1EEG-Physio-HRV FB.chs for the blue infinity.
P+ MT 1EEG … for the grey box instrument, or P2 MT 1 EEG …for the
procomp 2. You can choose the single Hz (called “2 Hz”) channel set for your
first assessment. Choose the PI MT 1EEG-Physio-HRV FB.chs for feedback
screens.
2. On right side screens for that channel set will pop up (put mouse to top short vertical
line (between ‘file name’ and ‘description’) and move it to right to expose more of
the screen name). Choose _AA-1 assess and any 4 other screens by holding down the
Ctrl and clicking over the ones you want. Release Ctrl and then say ‘OK’ (for
children you usually start with “A” screens. For adults use screens that combine NFB
+ BFB. (If you get the message “The number of detected encoders does not match
with the channel set … then the encoder is not detected. Check that you have the right
channel set, turned on your encoder, battery is OK, that the optical cable is inserted
all the way in and the attachment to the computer is secure.)
Now the ‘New Stuff’
3. In the upper bar of the display screen click Options: Click statistics – go half way down (use
mouse on right hand side vertical ribbon) and hold down the Ctrl key and click the MEANS
that you want such as Delta-Theta, 3-10 Hz, Theta, SMR, Problem solving beta and further
down the list: theta/beta, theta/SNR, or for adults, busybrain/SMR. (The first time we see a
child we click the first mean, Delta, hold down shift and click the last mean, Busybrain/SMR.
In this way all the means are highlighted.)
4. Now, under “Options” click Impedance then push in the Infiniti blue button until the light
flashes. Redo prep if they are not all green. Hold in button until light is steady to finish this.
(If you forget to push in the button until a steady blue light is seen, the EEG will look like
complete garbage!)
5. Start with #1 the _AA assess screen. Now sit very still and look at one point. Click the green
arrow to turn on the EEG for >40 seconds then click stop (red square) and stats pop up -
write them down, shade them and copy to client’s excel sheet, or click ‘print’. As we
noted above, “print” brings up the stats in word-for-windows from which you can save them
and/or print them. However, we usually write them on a special graphing sheet that is also
used for session notes (see appendix).
6. We recommend you experiment with the excel sheet at this juncture.
• Hold your left mouse button down over the top left corner of the list of statistics and draw
the mouse down over to the lower right corner.
• You see a dashed line ‘box’ appearing over the data and when you let the left mouse
button up the data will all be shaded (the second time you do this just shade the numerical
data because he names of the bandwidths will already be on the excel sheet from your
first ‘pasting’.)
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