Registered Polysom Tech

Description

Provides comprehensive evaluations and treatment of sleep disorders, under the general supervision of the Clinical Director (MD) or other designee, including polysomnography, diagnostic and therapeutic services or patient care and education.

Responsibilities

• Performs all duties defined for a Polysomnographic Technician along with scoring of sleep studies and assists with supervision of other staff.
• Gathers and analyzes patient information, reviews history, physical information, medications, procedure requests, and study protocols, completes and verifies documentation.
• Ensures any medication taken prior to entering the Sleep Lab is recorded in the sleep lab software system for provider review.
• Explains the procedure and orients patients to the sleep center.
• Prepares and calibrates equipment required for testing to determine proper functioning and makes adjustments, if necessary.
• Cleans sleep equipment (masks, tubing, electrodes, etc.) according to manufacturers' recommendations.
• Applies electrodes and sensors according to accepted published standards.
• Performs appropriate physiologic calibrations to ensure proper signals and makes adjustments, if necessary.
• Performs routine positive airway pressure (PAP) mask fitting.
• Follows procedural protocols to ensure collection of appropriate data, follows “lights out” procedures to establish and document baseline values, and performs polysomnographic data acquisition while monitoring study-tracing quality to ensure signals are artifact-free.
• Identifies and reports signal abnormalities, documents routine observations, including sleep stages and clinical events, changes in procedure, and other significant events in order to facilitate scoring and interpretation of polysomnographic results.
• Assists with appropriate interventions (including actions necessary for patient safety and therapeutic intervention such as continuous and bi-level positive airway pressure, oxygen administration, etc.), follows “lights on” procedures to verify integrity of collected data and complete the data collection process, and oversees and performs difficult and unusual procedures and therapeutic interventions.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and provide age-specific care in the treatment, assessment, and education of pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Assists with scoring sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines, scores clinical events (such as respiratory events, cardiac events, limb movements, arousals etc.), generates accurate reports by tabulating sleep/wake and clinical event data.
• Complies with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and standards regarding safety and infection control issues.
• Complies with the BRPT standards of conduct.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

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