Chaining Stopcocks instead of Y-Siting Multiple Lines?

[BiscuitStripes]

I'm new to the ICU, switched from the ED.  On another message board, I read from an ICU nurse that he/she uses several stopcocks chained together, with one end connected to the central line, the back end to TKO fluid, and the side ports for all of their lines so it stays more organized instead of Y-siting everything together. 

I thought this sounded like a really good idea.  I then learned that there are even commercial devices that do this same thing.  I then started in my ICU and we do not have the commercial device. I asked my preceptor and she said no one uses stopcocks, everyone Y-sites everything.  I asked a friend at a different ICU how they do it and he said the same thing, just Y site it. .  

So, I was wondering if anyone else does this with stopcocks or the commercial device?  I hate when a med gets d/c'd and it's the third, fourth, fifth, etc. down the Y-site chain and you have to disassemble everything to get to it.  Plus it tends to get tangled very easily.  Yet since my preceptor said she doesn't do stopcocks and doesn't know anyone else who does, and I'm new to the ICU, I don't want people to think what am I doing if I did it once I'm off orientation?? 

Thoughts? Insight is appreciated! 

I found some pictures to demonstrate what I'm talking about.  One is with stopcocks, the other a commercial device. 

[MunoRN, RN]

Manifolds seem to be typically only stocked in ORs and some procedural areas (cath lab for instance).

But even with access to manifolds I can't think that I've ever seen a critical care area that didn't at least have 'splitters', this can be connected in series creating a reasonably close approximation to a manifold.  Larger volume shared fluid pathways than a manifold but still far less than Y-siting each primary line onto another primary line's Y-site.