Cleaning Lab Equipment
- Never let electro gel dry in an
EEG cap or in our sensors.
- Letting gel dry in caps or
sensors will shorten the lives of our equipment.
- Cleaning EEG caps properly is
very important, because they are very expensive and because they are
integral to our data collection.
- Never let the connector end of
an EEG cap get wet.
- You must get ALL of the gel out
of the sensor cups.
- Even a seemingly minute amount
of residual gel will dramatically decrease the life of the cap and the
integrity of subsequent data collection.
- Follow these steps to clean our
EEG caps:
- Remove collars from the external
sensors.
- Fill the cap cleaning container
with warm soapy water.
- Soak the cap in the warm soapy
water for a few minutes, and stir around to clean.
- Hold each of the external
sensors and inside cup of the caps sensors under the water stream from
the faucet to remove the gel.
- Use a toothbrush to scrub out
remaining gel. Check
each sensor to make sure that all the gel is removed from the inside
cup.
- Clean outside of sensors (top of
cap) with water from the faucet.
- Once you are confident all of
the gel has been removed from the sensor cups, place the cap in the
metricide under the sink for at least ten minutes.
- DO NOT LEAVE THE CAP IN THE
METRICIDE FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES OR IT WILL BEGIN TO DETERIORATE.
- Remove the cap from the
disinfectant, and rinse well in clean water.
- Be sure to rinse all of the
disinfectant off of the caps or it will smell and deteriorate.
- Hang cap to dry on hook to the
right of the sink.
- Follow these steps to clean gel
applicators
- Shoot gel from applicator into
the sink.
- Dispose of blunt tip into trash.
- Fill applicator with water, and
shoot water through top to make sure it is cleaned inside.
- Do this as much as is
required to clean all of the gel out of the applicator.
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2000 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
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