LMI - Detailed description

Job titles

assistant chief electrophysiology technician (health and social services network)
echoencephalographic technologist
echoencephalography technician
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This unit group includes other diagnostic technologists not elsewhere classified who operate electroencephalographic and other diagnostic equipment to assist physicians in diagnosing diseases, injuries and abnormalities. Electroencephalographic and other diagnostic technologists who are supervisors or instructors are included in this unit group. They are employed in clinics, hospitals and medical laboratories.

Fields of interest

Conducting research
Providing others with care and assistance

Main duties

Electroencephalographic (EEG) technologists perform some or all of the following duties:
- Review patient's case history and assess nature of problem to determine processes and tests required
- Attach diagnostic equipment to patients and ensure patients' comfort and safety
- Operate diagnostic equipment such as electroencephalographs and evoked potential equipment to record the electrical activity of the brain, cranial and central nervous system
- Take notes on the recorded graph to identify interference such as poor electrode contact or patient movement
- Prepare recordings and reports for interpretation by neurologists
- Check, calibrate and perform routine maintenance to diagnostic equipment
- Train and supervise students, technicians or other electroencephalographic technologists.
Electromyography (EMG) technologists perform some or all of the following duties:
- Review patient's case history and assess nature of problem to determine processes and tests required
- Attach electromyographic equipment to patients and ensure patient's comfort and safety
- Operate electromyographic equipment to conduct electrophysiological nerve conduction velocity tests and to assist physicians in conducting electrophysiological tests such as muscle strength and repetitive stimulation
- Prepare recordings and reports of findings for physicians to aid in the diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders
- Check, calibrate and perform routine maintenance of equipment
- Train and supervise students, technicians or other electromyography technologists.

Main characteristics of the occupation

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Employment requirements

* Completion of secondary school and additional specialized training is required for electroencephalographic and other diagnostic technologists in this unit group.
* Electroencephalographic technologists require completion of a two-year college or hospital-based program in electrophysiology technology andSupervised practical training.
* Registration with the Canadian Board of Electroencephalograph Technologists is available for electroencephalographic technologists and is usually required by employers.
* Electromyography technologists require two years of supervised practical training.
* Registration with the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiologists/EMG Section is available for electromyography technologists and is usually required by employers.
* Electroencephalographic technologists who operate evoked potential equipment may require registration with the American Board of Registration of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potential Technologists.