Competency information
Details
Plan evoked potential recordings.
Considerations
- The range of conditions of patients referred for clinical neurophysiological testing.
- The referral system and the range of tests performed in a clinical neurophysiology department.
- The range and types of information required and its importance.
- How to check for validity of information.
- Appropriate action to be taken in the event of missing or invalid information.
- Types of investigation, their purpose and appropriateness for conditions presented.
- Criteria for determining whether investigations requested are appropriate to clinical question and the reason for referral.
- Potential special needs of patients and their carers, including communication, environmental and personal.
- Contra-indications to each investigation.
- Factors which may influence the duration and quality of investigations.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Measure visual, auditory or somatosensory evoked potentials in a normal subject. |