Subdermal Needle Electrodes
Color Coding Guide
Advances in technology in the past
several years now allow simultaneous multimodality monitoring and vastly
increased number of channels on today’s monitoring equipment.Those two factors, in addition to the
emergence of motor pathway monitoring, mean that clinicians are responsible for
placing significantly more electrodes per case than ever before.To help you deal with the increased demands, complexity, and sheer number of electrodes that these trends have brought to the OR Rhythmlink has designed our single and paired subdermal disposable EEG needle electrodes to help make your time in the OR easier, more efficient, and safer…all of which leads to what really matters: improved patient care.
Color Coding for Single Needle Electrodes
Our single subdermal needle electrodes come in a variety of colors.Single needle electrodes are available in a box of 6 colors (red, black, white, blue, green, and yellow) and a box of 12 colors (red, black, white, blue, green, yellow AND light blue, orange, pink, gray, brown, and purple).
All of these color options allow you to match specific anatomical sites with specific electrode colors.
For instance your practice can now link the white and dark blue single needle electrodes to C3’ and C4’ respectively. Yellow and orange can be used for CZ’ and CS (cervical spine).There are a myriad of ways your practice can set this up internally and benefit.
Color Coding for Paired Needle Electrodes
Our paired needle electrodes have even greater color coding abilities. By utilizing our 12 colors by combining a black and a white electrode each paired with a separate color, Rhythmlink’s pairs give you a host of color coding options.
Rhythmlink has developed our paired needle electrodes in this manner to give you a tremendous level of color coding options. By utilizing the remaining 10 colors to go with a black and white electrode the total number of unique paired combinations reaches 20.
To give you an example of how pairs are effective as color coding devices please refer to this example:
Begin by defining all the white paired electrodes as referring to the right side of the body. All pairs containing a black electrode refer to the left side of the body.
White paired electrode = right side of body
Black paired electrode = left side of body
Now take Rhythmlink’s paired needle electrode with the white and green colored leadwires.Link the green electrode with an anatomical site (i.e. gastrocnemius).We know that the white color refers to the right side of the body.So when you have to crawl under the drapes and you see a white/green paired electrode you know that this paired electrode should be in the RIGHT GASTROCNEMIUS.
Summary
By combining our 12 colors that our single needle electrodes offer with the 20 color combinations available with our pairs your practice can uniquely color code up to 32 anatomical sites.
