Medical Instrument Technician - Polysomnography

Summary The incumbent performs as a polysomnography technologist. They maintain state of theart quality in the principles, practices and procedures associated with Sleep Disorders Medicine. Performance of a variety of routine and complex sleep studies performed on VA patients at the sleep lab at the Washington DC VA Medical Center. Responsibilities Using state of the art equipment incumbent obtains polysomnograms on patients with life threatening sleep disorders. Obtains multiple sleep latency tests on patients with possible narcolepsy or other disorders of excess sleepiness. All testing performed requires on-line analysis by the technologist to obtain the necessary data for correct diagnosis and therapy for the patient. Make decisions about therapy in the case of patients with sleep apnea who are undergoing split night studies. Requires both obtaining studies that are representative and making decisions during the study if the patient is appropriate that night to undergo therapy, and ...