Description
Evaluate and interpret the electrical activity of the nervous system to diagnose and manage epilepsy and neuromuscular disorders. Perform and oversee EEG, EMG and nerve conduction studies, evoked potentials, and intraoperative neuromonitoring, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams on primarily nonsurgical care.
- • Conduct and interpret routine, ambulatory, ICU continuous, and long-term video EEG studies.
- • Perform and interpret EMG and nerve conduction studies for neuromuscular evaluation.
- • Record and analyze evoked potentials including visual, auditory, somatosensory, and motor.
- • Provide intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring and advise surgeons in real time.
- • Oversee quality control and maintenance of EEG and EMG laboratories and equipment.
- • Supervise and train neurodiagnostic technologists, residents, and fellows in electrodiagnostic procedures.
- • Participate in neuroscience and clinical neurophysiology research.
- • Educate medical students, residents, and staff on neurophysiology principles and practices.
- • Engage in continuing education to maintain and expand clinical neurophysiology competence.
- • Correlate electrophysiologic findings with clinical presentation and imaging to establish diagnoses.
- • Develop and adjust treatment plans for epilepsy and neuromuscular disorders based on test results.
- • Prescribe and manage antiepileptic and neuromuscular medications, monitoring for adverse effects.
- • Guide selection, programming, or optimization of neuromodulation therapies, such as VNS or DBS, with specialty teams.
- • Counsel patients and families on neurophysiologic findings, prognoses, and risk factors.
- • Prepare, maintain, and review reports and medical records of studies, interpretations, treatment plans, and outcomes.
- • Order and interpret adjunctive laboratory tests to support electrodiagnostic assessments.
- • Order supportive care services and refer patients to rehabilitation, specialized nursing, or social services as needed.
- • Consult with other clinicians regarding neurophysiologic data and patient care plans.
- • Coordinate neurophysiology services with epilepsy programs, neuromuscular clinics, ICU teams, and surgical services.
- • Identify and manage conditions such as epilepsy, peripheral neuropathies, radiculopathies, myopathies, neuromuscular junction disorders, and motor neuron disease.
- • Perform focused neurological and neuromuscular examinations.
- • Conduct brain death ancillary testing with EEG according to institutional and legal standards.
- • Ensure safety, infection control, and data privacy standards in neurophysiology labs.
- • Develop and implement protocols, standard operating procedures, and accreditation processes for neurophysiology services.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
