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cord-273884-dm73zgt8	Ludwin, Kobi	Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Prone Position: A Good Option for Patients With COVID-19	2020-06-16		.txt	text/plain	670	41	45	To the Editor P rone positioning of intubated patients suffering from pneumonia improves ventilation-perfusion matching, recruits collapsed alveoli, provides a more uniform distribution of tidal volume through improved chest wall mechanics, and may decrease mortality in more severely hypoxemic patients. 2 Immediate initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), including chest compressions, are crucial but challenging when the patient is prone. Performance of CPR in the prone position is uncommon, but there are several reports of CPR in patients in the prone position having spine surgery (Supplemental Digital Content, Table 1 , http://links. A reasonable question is whether a prone patient with cardiac arrest be turned supine before initiating CPR or remain in the prone position. Kwon et al 3 reported that the largest left ventricular cross-sectional area is 0-2 vertebral segments below the inferior angle of the scapula in at least 86% of patients in patients positioned prone. Prone positioning improves oxygenation in spontaneously breathing nonintubated patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure: a retrospective study	./cache/cord-273884-dm73zgt8.txt	./txt/cord-273884-dm73zgt8.txt