Naoyuki Sakihama, Ryuhei Okada, Naoto Takahashi, Naoki Fushimi, Tomoki Ooka, Hiroaki Kawabe, Yosuke Ariizumi, Kazuchika Ohno, Yutaka Ueki, Niro Tayama, Takeshi Tsutsumi, Takahiro Asakage
Severe cases of COVID-19 often require orotracheal intubation (OTI) and mechanical ventilation, and post-intubation laryngeal injury (PI-LI) is one of the important complications of OTI. Some studies have claimed that the frequency of PI-LI may be higher in COVID-19 patients as compared with that in non-COVID-19 patients, because of the larger size of endotracheal tube used, the longer OTI time, use of prone positioning of the patients, etc. Herein, we describe six cases of PI-LI who presented with dyspnea after recovering from COVID-19...
December 21, 2022: Auris, Nasus, Larynx