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The use of a videolaryngoscopy (VL) rather than direct laryngoscopy (DL) for endotracheal intubation may increase first pass success in infants with difficult intubation, but data on infants with normal airways have been lacking. In a new multicenter randomized trial including 564 infants with normal airway anatomy who were intubated for surgery, VL increased the first pass success compared with DL, particularly in very small infants (infants ≤6.5 kg: 92 versus 81 percent) [1]. We do not routinely use VL as...
