Vital Signs In medicine “vital signs” are those measurements considered critical to the health of an individual. Common vital signs include temperature, heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure. But there are also vital signs of the eye. Visual acuity...
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing How to get the Most out of your Visual Field Testing Given how important it is to obtain visual field testing and given how it takes both time and effort to do it, it makes sense to do what one can in order to obtain high...
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing Reasons Why Visual Field Testing Alone is Inadequate to Follow Glaucoma Progression As important as visual field testing may be, it is not the only test that should be performed in most individuals being followed for glaucoma....
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hello I’m Dr. David Richardson. I’m a cataract and glaucoma surgeon in Southern California. And on my morning commute, I like to discuss those topics that there’s simply not enough time to discuss in a typical exam room situation....
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing Visual Field Testing – When it Should be Done Given how neither patients nor their doctors like visual field testing, we’d all like to do it as little as possible. With that in mind, just how infrequently can one get...
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hello I’m Dr. David Richardson. I’m a cataract and glaucoma surgeon in Southern California and on my morning commute, I like to discuss those topics that there’s just not enough time to discuss in the exam room. So today, I’d...
