CryoPen  - consultation

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It is important that you are informed about your skin condition and proposed treatment including the potential benefits and risks involved. This disclosure is not meant to scare or alarm you; it is simply an effort to better inform you so you may give with or withhold your consent to the treatment.

 

By booking this treatment you agree to Cryopen Therapy. Any concerns that the skin lesion is anything  other than benign have been cleared and approved by a medical practitioner prior to this treatment. 

 

Risks and side effects

 

Pigment changes - 

Both hypo pigmentation (lightening of the skin) and hyper pigmentation (darkening of the skin). Both generally last a few months, but can be longer lasting. 

 

Nerve Damage - 

Though rare damage to nerves is possible, particularly in areas where they lie closer to the surface of the skin, such as fingers, the wrists and the area behind the ear. 

 

Shards of frozen humidity - 

The innovation of Cryopen is the direct application of nitrous oxide under high pressure (55 bar). This high pressure jet may cause minor shards of frozen humidity in the air blown away in a circle of approximately 30cm. They will thaw the moment they would eventually touch healthy skin. 

 

Lesions on sites with coarse terminal hair

Hair follicles are easily damaged by cryosurgery and permanent alopecia is not uncommon. 

 

I have been advised of the risks involved in such treatment, the expected benefits of such a treatment and alternative treatments including no treatments at all. 

 

I agree that this constitutes full disclosure and that it supersedes any previous verbal or written disclosure. 

 

I agree that I have read and that I have had sufficient opportunity for discussion and to ask questions. I consent to this procedure and to all subsequent procedures.