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Make interesting menmonic to remember this whole chart easily in 1 minute

Nice. Here’s a 1-minute, sticky mnemonic for your glaucoma investigations chart.

Master line (remember the 4 big branches)

“Disc Fields Pressure Angle”
→ D-F-P-A
So glaucoma workup =
  1. Optic Disc examination
  2. Visual Field (Perimetry)
  3. IOP measurement (Tonometry)
  4. Angle of anterior chamber

1) Optic Disc exam mnemonic

From your chart items (Direct ophthalmoscopy, slit lamp biomicroscopy, cSLO, SD-OCT, SLP), use:
“Doctors See Cups So Shape”
  • Doctors = Direct ophthalmoscopy
  • See = Slit lamp biomicroscopy
  • Cups = Confocal Scanning Laser Tomography (cSLO)
  • So = Spectral Domain OCT
  • Shape = Scanning Laser Polarimetry (SLP)

2) Visual field (Perimetry)

Two types first:
“KiSta” = Kinetic + Static
Then examples:

Kinetic examples:

“Gold Bears Tangos”
  • Goldmann perimeter
  • Bjerrum tangent screen

Static examples:

“Hungry Doctors Observe”
  • Humphrey field analyzer (HFA)
  • Dicon
  • Octopus

3) IOP / Tonometry

Main types:
“I Need To Apply”
  • Indentation
  • Non-contact
  • Transpalpebral
  • Applanation
Applanation split:

Fixed Force:

“Ma-Ba”
  • Maklakov
  • Barraquer

Fixed Area:

“Gold Perkins Punches Dragons, Makes Tense Patients”
  • Goldmann
  • Perkins
  • Pneumatic
  • Draeger
  • Mackay-Marg
  • Tonopen
  • Pascal

4) Angle of anterior chamber

Use:
“Very Obedient Girls Use ASOCT”
  • Van Herick’s method
  • Oblique flashlight test
  • Gonioscopy
  • UBM (Ultrasonic biomicroscopy)
  • ASOCT (Anterior segment OCT)

60-second recall script (say this fast)

“Glaucoma = Disc, Field, Pressure, Angle.
Disc: Doctors See Cups So Shape.
Fields: KiSta → Gold Bears Tangos / Hungry Doctors Observe.
Pressure: I Need To Apply → Ma-Ba and Gold Perkins Punches Dragons, Makes Tense Patients.
Angle: Very Obedient Girls Use ASOCT.”
If you want, I can convert this into a single ultra-short Hindi-English rap style mnemonic too.
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