Table 3.

Clinical scores and functional parameters before and after treatment in 15 cats

Variable	Pretreatment	Post‐treatment	P‐Value
12‐point cumulative clinical score	5 (3–7)	0 (0–1)
Cough frequency score	4 (3–5)	0 (0–0)	<.001
Respiratory distress score	0 (0–1)	0 (0–0)	.75
Thoracic auscultation score	2 (0–2)	0 (0–0)	.002
General condition score	0 (0–0)	0 (0–0)	1.0
pTBFVL indices
PEF/PIF	0.93 (0.76–1.18)	0.83 (0.70–0.91)	.055
PEF/EF50	1.63 (1.44–1.83)	1.27 (1.15–1.38)	.001
PEF/EF25	2.28 (1.76–2.57)	1.60 (1.42–2.00)	.001
EF50/EF25	1.28 (1.17–1.52)	1.26 (1.21–1.49)	.60
PIF/IF50	1.14 (1.09–1.20)	1.08 (1.06–1.11)	.022
PIF/IF25	1.28 (1.16–1.40)	1.26 (1.14–1.41)	.39
IF50/IF25	1.17 (1.05–1.21)	1.16 (1.08–1.23)	.89
EF75/IF75	0.91 (0.73–1.12)	0.85 (0.69–0.96)	.095
EF50/IF50	0.68 (0.58–0.77)	0.72 (0.61–0.78)	.68
EF25/IF25	0.60 (0.53–0.71)	0.62 (0.53–0.72)	.14
Conventional BWBP parameters
RR (cycles/min)	49 (44–58)	51 (35–62)	.76
TV/BW (mL/kg)	5.3 (4.4–6.2)	5.8 (4.3–7.0)	.76
MV/BW (mL/kg)	272.5 (204.2–339.1)	293.2 (191.6–330.1)	.85
T i (s)	0.49 (0.40–0.55)	0.48 (0.41–0.64)	.72
T e (s)	0.76 (0.65–0.83)	0.77 (0.67–0.98)	.56
PIF/BW (mL/s/kg)	16.1 (13.1–19.2)	16.4 (13.6–18.6)	1.0
PEF/BW (mL/s/kg)	14.4 (11.6–17.8)	12.5 (10.3–15.4)	.14
RT (s)	0.35 (0.31–0.39)	0.38 (0.30–0.45)	.33
PAU (unitless)	1.12 (0.88–1.28)	1.01 (0.78–1.32)	.39
Penh (unitless)	1.10 (0.64–1.21)	0.77 (0.60–1.46)	.39

PEF, peak expiratory flow; PIF, peak inspiratory flow; RR, respiratory rate; TV, tidal volume; MV, minute volume; BW, barometric whole; PAU, pause; Penh, enhanced pause; and IQR, interquartile ranges.

Data are presented as median with IQR.

Bolded values indicating two‐tailed P < .05.