title: Successful long-term airway stabilization with a modified pacifier in a syndromic infant.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Fatih University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Cizmeci
authors.forename: Mehmet K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Kanburoglu
authors.forename: Selma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ziraman
authors.forename: Mustafa M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Tatli
mesh_terms: D058109:Airway Management / Q000379:methods*; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000150:complications*; D016142:Holoprosencephaly; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009960:Oropharynx / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D041361:Pacifiers
keywords: airway stabilization; neonate; oropharyngeal airway; syndromic infant