A Perimetrist's Guide for Optic Disc Visual Field Screening: The Armaly-Drance Method.

Abstract

Disc-related defects constitute over 90% of field defects found in typical outpatient clinical population--e.g., ischemic neuropathy, optic neuritis, glaucoma. This handout is designed for anyone who uses a Goldman Visual Field Perimeter. It describes an efficient standardized screening examination that, when mastered, should take the ophthalmologist, ophthalmology resident, and experienced or inexperienced ophthalmic technician only 5 to 10 minutes per eye to perform. The technique, developed by Armaly and modified by Drance, is a combination of kinetic and suprathreshold static perimetry. Detection of disc-related field defects has shown to improve to 95% after a single day of instruction in the Armaly-Drance method.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA193554

Entities

People

  • Dean W. Carlson
  • Lawrence Tychsen

Organizations

  • United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

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  • Glaucoma
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  • Medicine

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  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.