Electroneurophysiology - Other Modalities 2 ENPY 3354

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to obtain a relevant patient history for polysomnography studies.
• Describe the steps involved in obtaining a polysomnography recording including:
• The various sleep stages.
• Modalities used.
• Respiratory, cardiac and movement monitoring.
• Machine settings.
• Define sleep disorders and their polysomnographic correlates.
• Define sleep study scoring.
• Describe the steps and uses of a multiple sleep latency test.
• Prepare a concise and complete technical interpretation/report of a sleep study.
• Analyze and describe PSG normal and abnormal waveforms seen on previously recorded and real-time recorded EP's during assignments and reading sessions.
• Define the technologist’s role in the operating room.
• Define the roles of each member of the surgical team.
• Describe techniques used to maintain sterility in the operating room.
• Describe the uses and techniques of the following monitoring modalities in terms of pre-operative, intraoperative and post-operative phases:
• EEG
• VEP
• ABR
• SEP
• EMG
• NCS
• MEP
• Describe how anaesthetic techniques and medications are used in the operating room and how they affect intraoperative monitoring.
• Describe how non-physiologic and physiologic factors that are common in the operating room affect intraoperative monitoring.
• Define alarm criteria for alerting the surgical team of monitoring changes.

Effective as of Winter 2017