Glaucoma: Session 07: Perimetry

Topics:
- Normal visual field
- Principles of perimetry
- Thresholding and threshold sensitivity
- Testing algorithms
- Testing strategies
- Testing frequency
- Performing the test
- Factors affecting test results
- Interpretation of a visual field test report
- Basic parameters
- Reliability indices (fixation loss, false positives, false-negatives)
- Detection visual field abnormalities
- Plots (numerical threshold sensitivity, grayscale, total deviation, pattern deviation)
- Indices (glaucoma hemifield test, visual field index, mean deviation, pattern standard deviation)
- Identifying artefacts
- Determining progression
- Event-based analysis (Guided Progression Analysis)
- Trend-based analysis (VFI trend)
- Visual field defects typical of glaucoma
- Grading of severity of glaucomatous visual field
- Structure-function correlation