Emergency Room / Department Technician
Quick Facts
Median Salary$45,536
Most Common EducationHigh school or GED
Projected 10-Year Growth+9.46%
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What They Do
An Emergency Room or Emergency Department Technician assists medical staff and performs tests on patients in a hospital emergency room or emergency medicine department. Takes blood samples and monitors vital signs; updates medical test records for physicians.
Core Tasks:
- Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
- 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.
- 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.
- Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
- Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
- Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
- Calibrate, troubleshoot, or repair equipment and correct malfunctions, as needed.
- Submit reports to physicians summarizing test results.
- Adjust equipment to optimize viewing of the nervous system.
- Measure visual, auditory, or somatosensory evoked potentials (EPs) to determine responses to stimuli.
- Assist in training technicians, medical students, residents, or other staff members.
- Participate in research projects, conferences, or technical meetings.
What to expect as an Emergency Room / Department Technician
1Earn a High school or GED Diploma
73% of people achieve this level of education.
2Gain skills and experience
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3Land a job
1019 openings for Emergency Room / Department Technicians
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