CONTRAINDICATION -Do not use this device on patients without cranial bone flap or have extensive scalp injury, bone defects (sections of skull missing), or any other conditions that deems to be a contraindication to performing monitoring using the brain4care device.
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With the sensor and headband assembled, place the headband around the patient’s head so that the sensor is located just above the ear. The sensor itself should contact the scalp in the temporal-parietal region about 2 inches (5-6 cm) above the entrance of the external auditory canal in the coronal plane and just below the boss of the head where the circumference is greatest, as shown in Figure 6.4-3.Either side of the head will work for sensor placement.
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