Patent ID: 7380944

Claim:
A method for documenting a patient's optic nerve, said optic nerve documentation method comprising: recording a reference to a patient; referencing an optic nerve in a manner understood to be at least one of ocular dexter (Right eye) and ocular sinister (Left eye); providing a illustrative representation of an optic nerve cup; recording a cup to disc ratio; and an optic nerves condition diagnosis represented by at least one of: a) the optic nerve cup illustration identifying a Full Rim condition via a optic nerve cup representation being an inner round object located completely within an optic nerve disc representation being an outer round object and a value indicating the percentage of the cup to disc ration (CRD), b) the optic nerve cup illustration identifying a Notch condition via a optic nerve cup representation being an inner round object located within and contacting an optic nerve disc representation being an outer round object, further including a first arrow style with the arrow directed towards the contacting area of the two round objects, c) the optic nerve cup illustration identifying a Rim Thinning via a optic nerve cup representation being an inner round object located within and encroaching upon an optic nerve disc representation being an outer round object, further including a second arrow style with the arrow directed towards the encroached area.