Schedules and contents of the courses

Of the specified learning units, 50% are taught as e-learning.

Laser safety course

Topic LE / Duration
Welcome and presentation of the courses, routes to certification. Legal basis and rules of the training and presentation of the instructors and facilities.
15 min
Physical quantities and properties of laser radiation
1 / 45 min
Biological effect of laser radiation
1 / 45 min
Legal basis and rules of technology
1 / 45 min
Laser safety & protection including indirect hazards (laser classes, limit values, hazards (direct/indirect))
1 / 45 min
Laser safety & protection including indirect hazards (laser classes, limit values, hazards (direct/indirect))
2 / 90 min
Laser safety in practice: example of a risk assessment
1 / 45 min
Tasks and responsibilities of the laser safety officer in the company
1 / 45 min
Control of learning objectives, feedback, evaluation
0.5 / 22.5 min

NiSV course

Topic LE / Duration
Legal bases, quality assurance, photo, findings and therapy documentation & certification
1 / 45 min
Epilation according to skin types, hair cycle, gender and special clinical features with various lasers, emitting long pulses (ms) in the melanin absorption spectrum at approx. 694, 755, 800-810, 980, 1064 nm or using combinations of these as well as IPL & home devices
1 / 45 min
Skin rejuvenation therapies: Low-energy lasers / light systems that emit in the water absorption spectrum (1540-1565 nm) or, as in photodynamic therapy, in the visible light range without damaging the barrier.
1 / 45 min
Therapy of non- & pigmented skin Exogenous pigments: e.g. qs, ns-/ps- ruby-, qs, ns-/ps -Nd:YAG-, qs, ns-/ps alexandrite laser Endogenous pigments (e.g. lentigo simplex, senilis (in distinction to: pigmented seb. or actinic keratosis, lentigo maligna), melasma, hyperpigmentation (post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, hemosiderosis, drugs, ashy dermatitis, N. Ota and N. Ito) and pigment stimulation using 308nm excimer lasers or systems
1 / 45 min
Treatment of vascular skin changes such as Localized superficial vasodilatation in various regions of the body (telangiectasia, nevus araneus, eruptive angiomas) Diffuse vasodilatation in various areas of the body (rosacea, erythema) Large-area or deeper vascular ectasias / erythema e.g. rosacea, ulerythema, erythrosis, essential telangiectasias or exogenously induced telangiectasias (trauma, 1 / 45 min Radiatio, UV, drugs), deep and large or multiple haemangiomas with special localizations such as mucosa and near critical body regions (eye, teeth, ear, anogenital) or with specific underlying diseases (Osler's disease, Fabry's disease) as well as venous lake, nevus flammeus and others using conventional & scanned lasers such as KTP, LBO, 577 nm HOPSL, PDL and IPL as well as scars with vascular lasers and non-ablative fractional lasers 1440-1565 nm including conditioning laser therapy using Er:Glass, diode lasers (1440-1565 nm)
1 / 45 min
Fat tissue therapy / body contouring (e.g. RF, ultrasound, laser lipolysis, cryolipolysis & shock wave therapy of the connective tissue. RF, ultrasound for the connective tissue and magnetic field stimulation of the muscles)
1 / 45 min
Coagulative and ablative laser procedures Excisional or ablative therapy of benign neoplasms of the skin (e.g. fibromas, seborrheic keratoses, neurofibromas, angiofibromas, xanthelasmata, trichiepitheliomas, syringomas, warts, rhinophyma and other viral-triggered neoplasms, steatocystoma multiplex and other small cysts of the skin or milia). Ablative (fractional) therapy (e.g. of intrinsic and extrinsic skin aging) depending on the localization, gender, age and skin condition with special attention to the exclusion of contraindications, specific information, consent pre- and post-medication, pain management and control of complications and side effects, e.g. using Er:YAG, Er:YSGG, thulium and CO2 lasers. Heat-based therapy of onychomycosis, e.g. using long-pulsed lasers in the 755-1064nm range.
1 / 45 min
Fractional lasers for scars, skin rejuvenation and the concept of fractional ablative lasers for laser-assisted drug delivery (LADD) for onychomycosis, scars, nail psoriasis and other skin changes.
1 / 45 min
Laser-assisted drug delivery (LADD) and locally destructive lasers for the treatment of actinic keratoses and basal cell carcinoma (application options within the framework of the guidelines and differentiation from off-label) Treatment of field cancerization, scars, malignant and premalignant tumors, warts, onychomycosis, alopecia, acne and other conditions with laser or in combination with laser-assisted drug delivery or cryo-laser chemotherapy or other systems (dye lasers, non-ablative fractional lasers) or photodynamic therapy in the sense of a hybrid treatment depending on the localization, gender, age and skin condition with special consideration of the exclusion of contraindications (squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, possibly amelanotic), specific information, consent, pre- and post-medication, pain management, control of complications and side effects and oncological aftercare. Using Er:YAG, Er:YSGG, thulium and CO2 lasers, photodynamic therapy (including daylight, artificial daylight, blue and red light) and liquid nitrogen and alternatives as well as topical chemotherapies and specific topicals Therapy of actinic keratoses and basal cell carcinomas using 1. full ablation: CO2 or CO2 / Er:YAG scanned 2. coagulation: dye laser, 1064nm long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser
1 / 45 min