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Respiratory flows as a method for safely preventing the coronavirus transmission (COVID-19)

The spread of CoV-2 occurs mainly by respiratory droplets. Its dispersion depends on several factors: viscoelasticity of fluid, ventilation, evaporation rate, exhalations, sneeze or cough. At moment, the preventive distance to avoid the contamination has been established in 1–2 m. We believe that it...

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Autores principales: Córdova, Alfredo, Latasa, Iban
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. on behalf of FUTBOL CLUB BARCELONA and CONSELL CATALÀ DE L'ESPORT. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236666/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apunsm.2020.05.001
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description The spread of CoV-2 occurs mainly by respiratory droplets. Its dispersion depends on several factors: viscoelasticity of fluid, ventilation, evaporation rate, exhalations, sneeze or cough. At moment, the preventive distance to avoid the contamination has been established in 1–2 m. We believe that it is necessary to review this aspect, because the respiratory flows change with the intensity of physical activity. The ventilatory response can be evaluated in terms of ventilatory demand or ventilatory efficiency. During maximal effort tests, athletes mobilize an extraordinary amount of air arriving to 150/200 L/min. The respiratory volume follows increase in linear progression during the test in function of power developed. When the air volume is increased 10 times, we think that the distance should be around 6–7 m.
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spelling pubmed-72366662020-05-19 Respiratory flows as a method for safely preventing the coronavirus transmission (COVID-19) Córdova, Alfredo Latasa, Iban Apunts Sports Medicine Article The spread of CoV-2 occurs mainly by respiratory droplets. Its dispersion depends on several factors: viscoelasticity of fluid, ventilation, evaporation rate, exhalations, sneeze or cough. At moment, the preventive distance to avoid the contamination has been established in 1–2 m. We believe that it is necessary to review this aspect, because the respiratory flows change with the intensity of physical activity. The ventilatory response can be evaluated in terms of ventilatory demand or ventilatory efficiency. During maximal effort tests, athletes mobilize an extraordinary amount of air arriving to 150/200 L/min. The respiratory volume follows increase in linear progression during the test in function of power developed. When the air volume is increased 10 times, we think that the distance should be around 6–7 m. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. on behalf of FUTBOL CLUB BARCELONA and CONSELL CATALÀ DE L'ESPORT. 2020 2020-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7236666/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apunsm.2020.05.001 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. on behalf of FUTBOL CLUB BARCELONA and CONSELL CATALÀ DE L'ESPORT. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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