Sleep Tech - Sleep Medicine

Description

Essential Job functions:

A day in the life of a Registered Polysomnographic Tech at Summit Health includes:

• Responsible for reviewing patient data in preparedness for a PSG.

• Responsible for hooking patient up with electrodes/monitoring equipment needed to record a PSG; and performing pre-PSG equipment calibrations.

• Monitors patients throughout the PSG, making notations on patient records every half hour.

• Administer oxygen and continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure in accordance with established protocols. May perform special procedures such as seizure monitoring, ambulatory monitoring, multiple sleep latency testing, maintenance of wakefulness testing, and end tidal CO2 monitoring.

• Removes electrodes at the end of the PSG and documents post-PSG findings.

• Documents dates of completion for each process of interpretation of PSG.

• Clean all equipment as indicated by Infection ...