glaucoma
Let an agent route acute glaucoma symptoms to emergency eye care, encourage regular eye tests, give general sourced information and point to support, without personal medical advice.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Urgent Emergency symptoms.
Acute
Acute angle closure.
Acute
Acute glaucoma.
- Is there sudden severe eye pain, redness, headache, nausea, blurred vision or halos around lights? boundary
- Should the person go to emergency eye care immediately? action
Vision
Sudden vision loss.
Vision
Sudden vision loss.
- Has vision been lost suddenly? boundary
- Should emergency services or an eye emergency department be contacted now? action
Screening Eye tests.
Tests
Routine tests.
Tests
Eye tests.
- How often do health services recommend eye tests, especially for people at higher risk? provenance
- Are tests free for relatives of people with glaucoma here? provenance
Risk
Risk factors.
Risk
Risk factors.
- Which risk factors do health authorities list for glaucoma? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own risk? boundary
Information General facts.
Types
Kinds.
Types
Types.
- What do eye health organisations say about this type of glaucoma? provenance
- How is it usually treated, in general terms? provenance
Treatment
Treatment questions.
Treatment
Treatment questions.
- Is the user considering stopping or changing eye drops? boundary
- How should the agent refer them to their eye specialist? action
Support Living with glaucoma.
Organisations
Patient groups.
Organisations
Patient organisations.
- Which glaucoma charities and helplines exist? provenance
- Which low vision services help? provenance
Driving
Driving rules.
Driving
Driving rules.
- Must glaucoma be reported to the driving authority here? provenance
- Which vision standard applies? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Other names and narrower kinds
- glaucoma with ocular inflammation, steroid-induced glaucoma, steroid-induced glaucoma - borderline, residual stage corticosteroid-induced glaucoma, blind hypertensive eye, hereditary glaucoma, syndromic glaucoma, glaucoma due to raised episcleral venous pressure, Uveitic glaucoma, hypersecretion glaucoma, aqueous misdirection, phacogenic glaucoma
What it is Filled
A group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve, often associated with raised pressure inside the eye, and a leading cause of irreversible sight loss; open-angle glaucoma usually develops slowly without symptoms, while acute angle-closure glaucoma is a medical emergency, and other forms include steroid-induced and hereditary glaucoma.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent route acute glaucoma symptoms to emergency eye care, encourage regular eye tests, give general sourced information and point to support, without personal medical advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Optic nerve damage
- Often symptomless early
- Acute form is an emergency
- Loss is irreversible
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose glaucoma or rule it out for a specific person.
- Advise a person to stop, change or skip prescribed glaucoma treatment.
- Treat sudden eye pain, redness and blurred vision as harmless instead of urging emergency care.
- Share a person's eye health or sight loss with employers, insurers or licensing bodies without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision about treatment or surgery for glaucoma.
- Reporting a person's fitness to drive based on their sight.
May
- Explain what glaucoma is and why regular eye examinations matter, citing health authorities.
- Remind a patient of eye drops or appointments they have asked to track.
Moral aspects Filled
- Glaucoma causes sight loss that cannot be reversed, so delays in care do permanent harm.
- Sight loss affects independence, work and driving, and disclosure can lead to discrimination.
Who is affected
- People with glaucoma
- Families and carers
- Other road users where driving fitness is concerned
Owners Filled
Steward
The patient, with their eye care professional; health services hold clinical records.
Master systems
- Clinical and health records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q3041498 - registry parent class
related
- eye disease - category
- optic nerve - structure
- retinal disease - related eye disease
- eye test - screening
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.glaucoma
- Wikidata: Q159701 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159701)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Optic nerve damage on examination
- Gradual peripheral vision loss
- Cataract clouds the lens instead
- Usually no visible signs early; detected by eye pressure tests, optic nerve examination and visual field tests.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- recognise emergency symptoms of acute glaucoma
- find eye testing and screening
- find general information on glaucoma types
- find sight loss and patient support
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Delaying care for acute symptoms
- Missing routine eye tests
- Stopping eye drops without advice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines on glaucoma
- Driving vision standards
- Eligibility rules for free eye tests
Context of use required Filled
- An eye condition relevant to screening, urgent care and sight loss support.
- primary open-angle glaucoma
- acute angle-closure glaucoma
- normal-tension glaucoma
- secondary and steroid-induced glaucoma
- congenital and hereditary glaucoma
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q159701: glaucoma - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Glaucoma - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should glaucoma types be separate entries?
- How should screening eligibility be localised?
- How should support services be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q159701/spec.json