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O*NET detailed work activityAdjust settings or positions of medical equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
12 jobs15 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (1 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 14 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Control anesthesia levels during procedures.
- Observe screen during scan to ensure that image produced is satisfactory for diagnostic purposes, making adjustments to equipment as required.
- Select appropriate equipment settings and adjust patient positions to obtain the best sites and angles.
- Plan the use of beam modifying devices, such as compensators, shields, and wedge filters, to ensure safe and effective delivery of radiation treatment.
- Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
- Position imaging equipment and adjust controls to set exposure time and distance, according to specification of examination.
- Adjust equipment and controls according to physicians' orders or established protocol.
- Adjust equipment to optimize viewing of the nervous system.
- Operate, assemble, adjust, or monitor sterilizers, lights, suction machines, or diagnostic equipment to ensure proper operation.
- Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
- Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.
- Adjust and maintain operating room temperature, humidity, or lighting, according to surgeon's specifications.