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The extent to which you're NIV-dependent, even 24/7, is not correlated with IPAP max or Vt. At all.
Height, weight and age are weakly correlated with settings, but not in a way that you have a chart for it. They suggest a starting point, along with pre-existing lung conditions, etc.
You might need to go up on your pressure later, alternate between up and down, go down till the end, with really infinite settings possibilities. I see people dying at very low settings, very high settings, and everything in between. It is the use of optimally-titrated NIV, not a certain settings profile, that keeps you going.
Height, weight and age are weakly correlated with settings, but not in a way that you have a chart for it. They suggest a starting point, along with pre-existing lung conditions, etc.
You might need to go up on your pressure later, alternate between up and down, go down till the end, with really infinite settings possibilities. I see people dying at very low settings, very high settings, and everything in between. It is the use of optimally-titrated NIV, not a certain settings profile, that keeps you going.
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