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  - 2014 Feb 01
TA  - Respiratory Care
PG  - e13--e14
VI  - 59
IP  - 2
4099  - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/59/2/e13.short
4100  - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/59/2/e13.full
AB  - Airway management is one of the key aspects of neonatal anesthesia, and an oropharyngeal airway is used in daily intensive care practice to relieve upper-airway obstruction. Cleft palate is among the various congenital malformations that can cause difficult airway management. 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.