Which jobs involve adjust settings or positions of medical equipment?

12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Anesthesiologist Assistants, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, Cytotechnologists, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, Medical Dosimetrists.

What kind of work is this?

It is physical, manual and inspection work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Handling and Moving Objects" (element 4.A.3.a.2).

Adjust settings or positions of medical equipment

Little of this can be handed to software today.

This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Barely automatable
Kind of work	Physical, manual and inspection work
Jobs that do it	12 occupations
Tool categories that apply	None
O*NET activity	Handling and Moving Objects (4.A.3.a.2)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 12 occupations that perform it.

Control anesthesia levels during procedures.
Enter data into computer and set controls to operate or adjust equipment or regulate dosage.
Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.
Adjust, maintain, or repair laboratory equipment, such as microscopes.
Adjust equipment and controls according to physicians' orders or established protocol.
Observe screen during scan to ensure that image produced is satisfactory for diagnostic purposes, making adjustments to equipment as required.
Position radiation fields, radiation beams, and patient to allow for most effective treatment of patient's disease, using computer.
Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
Plan the use of beam modifying devices, such as compensators, shields, and wedge filters, to ensure safe and effective delivery of radiation treatment.
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.
Adjust and maintain operating room temperature, humidity, or lighting, according to surgeon's specifications.
Select appropriate equipment settings and adjust patient positions to obtain the best sites and angles.
Position imaging equipment and adjust controls to set exposure time and distance, according to specification of examination.
Adjust equipment to optimize viewing of the nervous system.

What we would actually use

Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.

Our pickBuy nothing

Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.

Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.

How people actually do it

No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.

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Who does this work

12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance	40
Adjust temperature controls of ovens or other heating equipment	26
Calibrate scientific or technical equipment	20
Set equipment controls to meet cutting specifications	20
Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of production materials or products	16
Adjust equipment controls to regulate coolant flow	14
Calibrate equipment to specifications	11
Adjust vehicle components according to specifications	10

Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.