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Neurodiagnostic Technologists

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.

What you’d do

  • Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
  • Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
  • Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
  • Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
  • Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
  • Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
  • Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
  • Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.

Skills that matter

  • Active Listening
  • Speaking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Monitoring
  • Writing

How to get there

Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree

Also called

  • Certified Neurodiagnostic Technologist
  • Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist (END Technologist)
  • Registered Electroencephalogram Technologist (Registered EEG Tech)
  • Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT)
  • Certified Intraoperative Neurophysiology Technologist (Certified Intraoperative Neurophysiology Tech)
  • Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Technologist (IONM Tech)

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