Pacifier Use in Mechanically Ventilated Term Newborns

"In this project, a pacifier produced from a modified pacifier shield made of polypropylene (PP), a biocompatible polymer, which is made suitable for intubation tube in newborns connected to mechanical ventilator, will be used in the light of literature information. No study on the modification of the pacifier shield has been found in the literature, and a utility model application (file number 2020/03477 dated 06 March 2020) was made for this pacifier shield, which is planned to be modified, and the utility model application was accepted on 04.02.2022.~In the application of heel blood collection to newborns, a) before the procedure (20 minutes before), b) immediately before the procedure (20. minutes), c) during the procedure (between the 20th and 40th minutes), and d) 20 minutes after the procedure (40 minutes) will be evaluated once for each application, a total of four times."