id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-337520-qp0ga6q8 Binning, Mandy Cardiopulmonary resuscitation causing thoracolumbar hyperextension with severe spinal cord injury: A case report 2020-09-03 .txt text/plain 1631 99 46 title: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation causing thoracolumbar hyperextension with severe spinal cord injury: A case report Thoracic vertebral fractures are extremely rare complications of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). We describe an extremely rare case of a COVID-19 positive, 79-year-old female who had a cardiac arrest with CPR, resulting in a widely diastatic spinal separation at the T12-L1 intervertebral disc space with L1 spinous process fracture. CT now demonstrated a widely diastatic spinal separation at the T12/L1 intervertebral disc space with L1 spinous process fracture in the context of multilevel vertebral fusion, reflecting diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis ( Fig. 3 ) . The CPR guidelines released in 2010 and 2015 by the American Heart Association endorsed performing chest compressions at a speed of at least 100-120 compressions per minute and to a depth of at least 5 cm for adult patients with cardiac arrest [2 ,3] . Multiple thoracic vertebral fractures as a complication of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A case report ./cache/cord-337520-qp0ga6q8.txt ./txt/cord-337520-qp0ga6q8.txt