Posted in Health Care 3 days ago.
Type: Full-Time
Location: Miami, Florida
Job Summary
Reporting to the Seizure unit Chief Technologist and the Brain Institute Service Line Administrator, the reader will be responsible for the following: scanning of video EEG studies, sending alerts to designated team members, annotating studies based on clinical indication for monitoring, generating summary of past 24 hrs, and facilitating the tracking of quality and impact. Responsible for the technical operation of the laboratory performing clinical or research work; performs job functions following the "Guidelines for EEG and Long Term Neurodiagnostic Monitoring in Epilepsy” as set down by the American Society of Electroneurodiagnostic Technologists. Performs complex studies with no supervision. Is trusted by and regularly engages with the Neurology Department Epileptologost.
Minimum Job Requirements
A. Scan all studies by 9.00 am every morning on weekdays and 10 am on weekends.
B. Send alerts in all monitored patients. Begin with criteria currently used for Corticare. These will be modified by the clinical team through ongoing feedback.
C. Label or annotate to highlight events of interest based on clinical aim of the study. Specifically review events logged by the parents. Annotation criteria will evolve with ongoing feedback; examples to include:
I. NeuroICU Care: All alerts
II. Characterize known seizure disorder further.
i. Interictal epileptiform abnormalities. If they are very frequent, label examples of those that reflect state related changes or different distribution (focal location or generalized).
ii. Label seizure onset, type (tonic/clonic, myoclonic, absence, spasms, atonic), duration, localization.
iii. Background slowing unrelated to sleep, asymmetry greater than 50% persisting over different head positions.
III. Rule out encephalopathy.
i. Slow poorly organized background
ii. Frequent spikes or spike wave discharges exceeding 20/min
iii. Continuous spike discharges during sleep exceeding 50% of the record.
iv. Repetitive runs of spikes or rhythmic discharges each lasting over a min
IV. Differentiate epileptic from non-epileptic events:
i. Label all events logged by parents as being either epileptic or non-epileptic
ii. Interictal background and epileptiform abnormalities
D. Generate a summary of salient findings over past 24 hrs:
I. Alerts sent
II. Seizures captured #, type
III. Associated encephalopathy
IV. Interictal epileptiform and/or background abnormalities
V. Non-epileptic events
VI. Normal interictal, no events
E. Tracking performance: obtain feedback from clinical team and participate with the Chief Tech in ongoing quality improvement initiatives.
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