Background and objective.

One of the most frequent complications in major burns is hypertrophic scarring. There are multiple treatments that are applied, but to date, there is no clarity regarding the efficacy of one over the other for the management of burn sequelae.

The objective of this work is to analyze the evidence of laser CO2 in scars secondary to burns.

Methods.

For the search in LILACS and PubMed, the MESH terms used were: Laser therapy and/or burns or scars, selecting meta-analysis, prospective series, systematic reviews and reviews of clinical trials.

Results.

After grouping all the publications of the articles and eliminating the duplicates, an analysis of a total of 24 publications was carried out.

Conclusions.

Regarding the analyzed evidence, the use of CO2 laser in post-burn scars seems to be promising and safe, however, not all articles are of good quality and not all laser protocols can be extrapolated to all patients, so there is a lack of better quali-ty evidence to conclude regarding the true scope of this therapy.

In relation to the protocols analyzed, these vary in duration, factors evaluated and number of sessions performed.

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