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cord-297544-h5dsnex9	Kulkarni, Sagar	The bone prone team	2020-06-26		.txt	text/plain	689	58	73	This article tells the tale of the orthopaedic surgeons who rose to the challenge of helping to treat coronavirus patients on the intensive care unit. Authors: Sagar Kulkarni 1 I recall the first time we called the orthopaedic surgeons for assistance. Once, an orthopaedic surgeon attended the ICU after a challenging trauma case, asking, "I got bleeped two hours ago; is everything okay? With typical orthopaedic precision, proning would happen on a schedule -every day, the bone prone team, composed of several consultants, registrars and senior house officers, would attend the ICU at 8am and 5pm, ready to prone. One morning, the bone prone team attended the ICU, like a sports team descending from a tour bus. Once we (the ICU and orthopaedic teams) had all donned our PPE, we entered the unit together. Six weeks later, all patients who were proned on that day survived ICU.	./cache/cord-297544-h5dsnex9.txt	./txt/cord-297544-h5dsnex9.txt