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Doctors at Dr Mehta’s Hospitals Save 10-Day-Old Infant with Blocked Airways ~ The surgeons utilized an open mouth technique for preoxygenation to infant, since the choanal atresia condition posed a real challenge~ Chennai, February 17th, 2024: Surgeons at Dr. Mehta’s Hospitals in Chennai successfully performed critical surgery on a 10-day-old baby with blocked nasal passages. This life-threatening condition, known as bilateral choanal atresia, occurs when a membranous obstruction blocks both sides of the nasal passages, leading to extreme breathing and feeding difficulties in the infant. The neonate's condition was initially identified when a nasogastric (NG) tube couldn't pass through both nasopharynx passages. Further diagnostic imaging via a CT scan confirmed the presence of membran...