Ariel Marasigan

• Actively participate in the interview panel, assessing potential candidates for new hires and contributing to the selection process
• Train and onboard new staff members by coordinating workflow and demonstrating best practices to ensure the effective integration into the team
• Perform comprehensive screening of patient referrals to assess needs and ensure appropriate correlation with specialized sleep services
• Educate patients in a classroom setting on various sleep disorders
• Instruct patients on home diagnostic sleep equipment, ensuring proper setup and usage
• Read and analyze sleep studies and providing preliminary diagnosis to patients
• Instruct patients on the proper use of therapeutic equipment used for Obstructive Sleep Apnea and other home ventilatory support systems
• Assists in the planning, development and implementation of respiratory care programs that coordinate high quality, cost-effective care for patients with COPD, hypoventilation, neuro-muscular disease, Sleep Apnea and all other sleep disorders
• Conduct follow up consultations with CPAP users to ensure adherence or refer patients to alternative treatment

· Contributed to the establishment of the ALS program, which received recognition from regional leaders for its innovative approach and impact in patient care. Now being implemented as standard practice to treat ALS patients within Southern California Kaiser.

· Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals to develop and implement patient centered treatments plans that enhance comfort as the ALS progresses

· Assists in the planning, development and implementation of respiratory care programs that coordinate high quality, cost-effective care for patients with neuro-muscular disease.

· Place orders on the mode of ventilation for worsening ALS symptoms

· Troubleshoot and optimize ventilatory support systems including AVAPS,IVAPS,BiPAP and CPAP

Conduct pulmonary function test (PFTs) to assess and monitor disease progression.

• Completes a comprehensive assessment of covid patients over the phone
• Recommends and coordinates appropriate levels of care as indicated by clinical needs and utilization criteria
• Develops, implements, evaluates and revises, as necessary, a plan for recovery, including titrating oxygen, advising and recommendations
• Communicates with doctors for a care of plan, and any changes in the plan to patient
• Orders oxygen, high flow oxygen, breathing exercise devices and humidifiers

• Responsible for preparing equipment, reviewing study protocols and providing explanations of procedures to patients of sleep studies
• Follow proper polysomnographic procedures, including applying electrodes and sensors, calibrating equipment and fitting the positive airways pressure mask
• Record scoring mainly involves the scoring of sleep/wake stages, certain clinical events
• Instruct patients on home diagnostic sleep equipment
• Instruct patients on the proper use of therapeutic equipment used for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Computer Charting (Epic Hyper Space) Somnoware super user