Tips and Tricks for successful visual field interpretation

Do you use visual fields regularly but wish you could get more out of them? Then join Monika Fischer and re-visit common representations to learn what they can and cannot tell about a patient’s visual field. See also how Cluster and Polar analysis can increase confidence in borderline cases and learn how progression analysis provides faster and more accurate answers to whether, how fast and why a patient is progressing. This webinar gives a distilled summary of the book “Visual Field Digest” and is useful for any clinician wanting to build on visual field interpretation skills. It is open for both users of an Octopus and an HFA perimeter. 00:00 Introduction by Reiner Herrmann 06:28 Overview: Successful visual field interpretation 08:27 Correct Patient and examination parameters 09:08 Reliable visual fields 11:47 "Defect Curve: Diffuse loss as sign of unreliable visual fields" 15:32 Probabilities: Normal or abnormal visual field? 18:41 Glaucoma Cluster Test, Brusini Staging System, Hodapp-Parrish-Anderson 21:28 Grayscale & Comparisons: Shape and depth of defect 22:49 MD and sLV: Severity of disease 25:44 Cluster Analysis for sector defects 28:20 Polar Analysis und ONH Projection Analysis: Where to look for structural defects? 32:19 Overview: Progression Analysis 38:40 MD Trend Analysis: Real change or just progression? 34:04 Facts about trend analysis 41:48 DD und LD Trend Analysis: Diffuse or locale progression? 45:37 Cluster Trend Analysis: Where does change happen? 47:50 Polar and ONH Trend Analysis: Where to look for structural change? 48:43 Summary: Progression Analysis 50:21 Questions & Answers