Patient history
A 76-year-old COVID-19 male with history of coronary stenting, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart arrhythmia was admitted in the ICU for respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation. As recommended in our ICU department, patient was tracheotomized 7 days after its ICU hospitalization. Surgical tracheotomy was performed without difficulty. Forty-eight hours post-tracheotomy (d9), patient benefited from neck CT-scan for peri-tracheal bleeding. The tomodensitometry confirmed lateral neck hematoma in front of the left superior thyroid artery (Figure 2a, b). According to the bleeding risk and the clinical condition of the patient, physicians proposed a conservative management of the hemorrhage.