Description
Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.
- • Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
- • Participate in research projects, conferences, or technical meetings.
- • Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
- • Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
- • Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
- • Calibrate, troubleshoot, or repair equipment and correct malfunctions, as needed.
- • Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
- • Measure visual, auditory, or somatosensory evoked potentials (EPs) to determine responses to stimuli.
- • Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
- • Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
- • Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
- • Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
- • Adjust equipment to optimize viewing of the nervous system.
- • Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
- • Submit reports to physicians summarizing test results.
- • Assist in training technicians, medical students, residents, or other staff members.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
