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A 1-year-old girl with trisomy 21 was admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with respiratory distress requiring endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. She required a prolonged period of intubation despite multiple attempts to extubate.
One re-intubation towards the end of her PICU admission was performed using a Vimed video laryngoscope (Vimac, Hebei Vimed Medical Device Company). When reviewing footage recorded on the video laryngoscope, bilateral vocal cord lesions …
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Contributors AP and SL wrote the article. CF reviewed the article prior to submission.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Parental/guardian consent obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.