What do neurodiagnostic technologists do?
Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.
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Job titles to recognize in your search
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- Certified Intraoperative Neurophysiology Technologist (Certified Intraoperative Neurophysiology Tech)
- Certified Neurodiagnostic Technologist
- Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist (END Technologist)
- Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Technologist (IONM Tech)
- Neurodiagnostic Technologist (Neurodiagnostic Tech)
- Neurophysiology Technical Specialist
- Registered Electroencephalogram Technologist (Registered EEG Tech)
- Registered Electroencephalography Technologist (R. EEG. T)
Core tasks to compare with a job posting
- Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
- Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
- Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
- Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
- Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
- Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
- Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
- Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
- Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
- Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
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