Fig 1.
Questionnaire used to assess dyspnea before and after a pleural procedure.
Table 1.
Summary of final diagnoses.
Table 2.
Number of different pleural procedures.
Table 3.
Summary of decrease in VASD categorised by response on Likert scale.
Fig 2.
Decrease in visual analogue scale for dyspnea based on response on Likert scale after procedure.
Circles represent individual data points with mean and standard deviation marked above. Positive change in VASD represents improvement in breathlessness.
Fig 3.
Relationship between volume of fluid drained and change in visual analogue scale for dyspnea.
Circles represent individual data points (change in visual analogue scale and volume of pleural fluid drained) following pleural procedures. Solid line represents the line of best fit going through zero.
Fig 4.
Mean decrease in visual analogue scale for dyspnea based on different procedures.
Circles represent individual data points with mean and standard deviation marked above. Positive change in VASD represents improvement in breathlessness.