Facemasks do not lead to abnormal gas exchange during treadmill exercise testing in children

Maria Christina Mallet; Michael Hitzler; Marco Lurà; Claudia E Kuehni; Nicolas Regamey

doi:10.1183/23120541.00613-2021

Facemasks do not lead to abnormal gas exchange during treadmill exercise testing in children

ERJ Open Res. 2022 Mar 21;8(1):00613-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00613-2021. eCollection 2022 Jan.

Authors

Maria Christina Mallet^{1

2}, Michael Hitzler³, Marco Lurà³, Claudia E Kuehni^{1

4}, Nicolas Regamey³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Children's Hospital, Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.
⁴ Division of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Dept of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract

No episodes of oxygen desaturation or carbon dioxide retention were observed in this cross-sectional study assessing children with exercise-induced symptoms wearing a surgical facemask during a submaximal treadmill exercise test https://bit.ly/3GuxhvO.