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General Preventive Medicine
Job ID: Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT)
Job Duties, including but not limited to:
Thorough experience and knowledge of the principles, techniques and concepts of polysomnography scoring and report preparation for physician interpretation. The sleep record scoring shall be within the AASM guidelines, using the current AASM scoring manual, version 2.6. Minimum number of studies scored within the 8 hour shift shall be 6.
Utilizing and scoring sleep records on digital sleep programs.
Tasks completed during sleep record scoring:
Identify normal wake and sleep Electroencephalography (EEG) patterns
Identify and score sleep and wake stages
Identify normal and abnormal sleep architecture
Identify and score movement time, body movements and arousals
Identify seizure activity, alpha-delta sleep and drug spindles
Identify Rapid Eye Movement (REM) behavior disorder
Identify normal and abnormal cardiac beats and rhythms
Identify and score Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMS) and event related arousals and awakenings
Identify and score respiratory events and related phenomenon
Tasks for preparing a report for physician interpretation:
Perform a computerized data analysis containing the following data:
Recording time, sleep time and sleep efficiency
Sleep and stage latencies, and latency to persistent sleep – this includes all stages in Non- Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) and REM sleep
Movement time, wake time, NREM and REM onset
Cortical arousal number and index
Respiratory events and index – respiratory events include obstructive, central, mixed apneas and obstructive hypopneas
Body position
Oxygen Saturation
Heart Rate
PLMS number and index
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