Proposal of the Andalusian Center for Sports Medicine to carry out stress tests with gas analysis on elite athletes during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Abstract

The current pandemic situation, produced by SARS-CoV-2, forces exercise physiology laboratories to take a series of additional measures for the safe performance of stress tests, both diagnostic and performance. The objective of this report is to present preventive measures to be taken to avoid contagion by SARS-CoV-2 during exercise tests on athletes, proposed by the professionals of the Andalusian Center for Sports Medicine, based on scientific evidence available, and oriented towards its application in the laboratory itself, to athletes and to all professionals who participate in its evaluation.