Senior Diagnostic Neurophysiology Technologist, EEG Clinical - BC Children’s Hospital

Senior Diagnostic Neurophysiology Technologist, EEG Clinical

BC Children’s Hospital

Vancouver, BC

What you’ll do

• Perform somatosensory (SEP) and motor evoked potential monitoring (MEP) during high-risk spinal cord surgery. Assist surgeon with intralaminar motor tract stimulation by providing sterilized electrodes, plugging electrodes into stimulator, recording response, and giving feedback on the placement. Label and measure waveforms. Communicate a factual report to surgeon. Trouble-shoot system when response is lost.
• Perform advanced intraoperative monitoring, including brainstem cranial nerve monitoring and mapping of the fourth ventricle.
• Perform electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings during special events such as Sodium Amytal (WADA) testing, SPECT scans and high-resolution EEG studies.
• Perform intensive EEG monitoring (IM) on patients with scalp and intracranially placed electrodes (grid and / or depth electrodes). Assist physician by plugging in grid electrodes and records during direct cortical stimulation studies. Perform electrocorticograms (ECoG) from the exposed cerebral cortex in the operating room.
• Review digital seizure data, identify segments of interest for physician and save the segment to disk. Annotate file with EEG and clinical findings. Correlate video of ictal events.
• Apply electrical stimulation to the penis / clitoris or anus and record pudendal evoked potentials. Apply electrical stimulation to spinal nerve roots and conveys threshold levels and clinical muscular responses to the surgeon during laminectomies, rhizotomies and tethered cord surgeries. Performs EMG / NC in the laboratory, at the bedside, or in the operating room.
• Perform analogue and digital EEG recordings. During EEG testing, ask patient questions to demonstrate responsiveness and document patient’s clinical activities during a seizure of other patient emergent situation. Review data collected during event. Provide hard copy printout and factual report of clinical and electrical events. Document video times for archiving and complete appropriate forms.
• Perform ambulatory monitoring (AM). Apply electrodes and programs hard drive to collect with appropriate parameters as determined by the presenting history. Disconnect patient, transfer collected data to hospital network, and reformat hard drive. Analyse and classify EEG data.
• Write a comprehensive patient history with accumulated information from the patient and / or parent and the medical chart documents. Determine the presenting problem and direct test accordingly. Explain the procedure to patient and family members present and answers any question.
• Perform video tape archiving by operating dual VCRs and titling equipment to copy seizure segments onto a master tape.
• Participate in diagnostic computer maintenance including daily archiving of patient data files onto CD ROM, trouble-shooting acquisition station problems, and installation of program upgrades.
• Administer sedation to patient as prescribed by the patient’s physician when necessary, under supervision.

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What we bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

Requisition # 183727E

What we do

(BCCH) provides care for the most seriously ill or injured children and youth from across British Columbia.

BCCH is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).

The Provincial Health Services Authority () plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include : Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Create equity – Be courageous.

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PHSA and BCCH are committed to anti-racism and equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and / or persistently excluded groups identified under the Human Rights Code.

One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and / or contact the Sanya’k̓ula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at .

Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan : A First Nations Case Study.

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