PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mehmet N. Cizmeci
AU  - Mehmet K. Kanburoglu
AU  - Selma Ziraman
AU  - Mustafa M. Tatli
TI  - Successful Long-Term Airway Stabilization with a Modified Pacifier in a Syndromic Infant
AID  - 10.4187/respcare.02530
DP  - 2013 May 21
TA  - Respiratory Care
PG  - respcare.02530
4099  - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/2013/05/21/respcare.02530.short
4100  - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/2013/05/21/respcare.02530.full
AB  - Airway management is one of the key aspects of neonatal anesthesia and an oropharyngeal airway (OPA) is used in daily intensive care practice to relieve upper airway obstruction. A myriad of congenital malformations have features that might cause a difficult airway management and cleft palate is among these conditions. Herein, we describe a syndromic infant with alobar holoprosencephaly whose long-term airway patency was maintained with a modified infant pacifier. We would like to share our experience and contribute to the literature with the introduction of a readily available and easily-inserted apparatus.