ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the background and the settings of the laser for retinal disease. The advent of the Pascal™ Photocoagulator patterned-scanning laser has allowed the delivery of photocoagulation laser to the retina in near simultaneously delivered grids of up to 25 burns. This significantly reduces the time taken to undertake retinal laser treatment, as well as allowing greater reproducibility between clinicians. The aim of the slit lamp–panretinal photocoagulation is to induce regression of neovascular retinopathy and to prevent its development in the presence of marked retinal ischaemia by reducing the retinal oxygen tension. The chapter presents equipment list, consent, procedure, and pearls required for the slit lamp–panretinal photocoagulation, macular argon-laser photocoagulation: macular grid laser, and argon-laser retinopexy.
