Registered Polysomnographic Technologist

Job Description
Summary

The Registered Polysomnographic Technologist works under medical supervision to perform and evaluate overnight polysomnograms on pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.  This individual functions independently to safely operate sophisticated medical equipment to record sleep/wake physiology.  The registered polysomnographic technologist must recognize sleep pathology when it occurs in the laboratory and respond with the appropriate interventions to ensure patient safety.

Knowledge of normal cardio-respiratory, neurological and sleep physiology is essential to the registered polysomnographic technologist.  The technologist understands the function of equipment used to monitor and record airflow/effort, electromyograms (muscle activity), electrocardiograms (heart rate and rhythm), pulse oximetry (blood oxygenation/saturation).

The identification of normal/abnormal patterns, artifact and sleep/wake stages are critica...