Immediate skin responses to laser and light treatments: Warning endpoints: How to avoid side effects.
Lasers are versatile, commonly used treatment tools in dermatology. While it is tempting to follow manufacturer's guidelines or other "recipes" for laser treatment, this approach alone can be a recipe for disaster. Specific and immediate skin responses or endpoints exist and are clinically useful because they correlate with underlying mechanisms that are either desirable (ie, therapeutic), undesirable (ie, warning signs of injury or side effects), or incidental. The observation of clinical endpoints is a safe and reliable guide for appropriate treatment. This article presents the warning endpoints during specific dermatologic laser treatments, and the accompanying article presents the therapeutic endpoints, their underlying mechanisms, and the utility of these endpoints.
['Wanner|Molly|M|', 'Sakamoto|Fernanda H|FH|', 'Avram|Mathew M|MM|', 'Anderson|R Rox|RR|']
D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing D005260:Female D006801:Humans D028022:Low-Level Light Therapy D008297:Male D061214:Patient Safety D010789:Phototherapy D011322:Primary Prevention D011379:Prognosis D018570:Risk Assessment D012871:Skin Diseases D016896:Treatment Outcome
skin laser light warning endpoint adverse effects