{"id":1888,"date":"2020-10-30T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:11:55","slug":"peripheral-oxygen-saturation-in-older-persons-wearing-nonmedical-face-masks-in-community-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/30\/peripheral-oxygen-saturation-in-older-persons-wearing-nonmedical-face-masks-in-community-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Peripheral Oxygen Saturation in Older Persons Wearing Nonmedical Face Masks in Community Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Wearing a 3-layer non-medical face mask was not associated with a decline in oxygen saturation among adults over 65 in a small (n=25) crossover study. Study participants were provided with a mask and pulse oximeter and were instructed to measure their peripheral oxygen saturation (Spo<sub>2<\/sub>) three times, twenty minutes apart for one hour before, one hour while, and one hour after wearing the mask. The pooled mean Spo<sub>2<\/sub>measurements were 96.1% before, 96.5% while, and 96.3% after wearing the mask. The paired mean differences in Spo<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0for each participant while wearing the mask were minimal when compared with the value before mask wearing (0.46%) and the value after wearing the mask (0.21%), and none of the participants\u2019 Spo<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0readings fell below 92% while wearing masks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chan et al. (Oct 30, 2020). Peripheral Oxygen Saturation in Older Persons Wearing Nonmedical Face Masks in Community Settings. JAMA. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.21905\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.21905<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a 3-layer non-medical face mask was not associated with a decline in oxygen saturation among adults over 65 in a small (n=25) crossover study. Study participants were provided with a mask and pulse oximeter and were instructed to measure their peripheral oxygen saturation (Spo2) three times, twenty minutes apart for one hour before, one&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/30\/peripheral-oxygen-saturation-in-older-persons-wearing-nonmedical-face-masks-in-community-settings\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74,37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-masks","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}