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Using the BRM3 Brain Monitor
The Help screen
The Help screen is divided into two main panes:
 Contents/Index pane
: You can switch between the Contents Tree and the Help Index by touching the tabs at the
top of the pane.
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Topic pane : Displays the topic selected in the Contents Tree or Help index, or navigated to by touching a link or
navigation icon.
Navigating the Help system
It may be helpful to use a stylus or a pen to activate links in the Onscreen Help System.
Contents Tree
The Contents Tree contains the titles of all topics in the Help system, organized under appropriate headings. You can
navigate the Help system by touching the topic titles displayed in the Contents Tree.
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Touching the to the left of the heading will expand the heading into its component topics. Touching the
left of the heading will collapse the components topics underneath the title. To view a topic from the Contents Tree:
1. Locate the topic title in the Contents Tree, expanding headings as necessary until the desired topic title is displayed.
2. Touch the topic title to view the topic, in the topic pane.

Managing data files

During an assessment, the BRM3 Brain Monitor records all EEG data, patient details and events into a set of digital files on
the machine's internal storage (hard disk drive). These files can be grouped together and compressed into a single archive file.
See on page 28.
Archiving data files
Data file naming convention
Files in internal storage
The data files produced by the BRM3 Brain Monitor are named according to the following convention.
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<Patient ID> <Start Date>
(for example, ABC 1 234_20020820.brm)
is the date on which the recording was started, in the format
<Start Date>
Where two or more assessments on the same patient are performed on the same calendar day, suffixes (_1, _2, _3, etc.) are
added to the file names to distinguish the assessments.
.brm
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yyyymmdd
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