depends! Ussually if the IPPB pressure drops you are looking for two things 1) a leak 2) the patient is sucking in instead of allowing the machine to fill there lungs.
if it is a leak, find it and fix it. if the patient is sucking in because they think it will shut of the machine then you need to do more education with the patient.
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If you dial the flow to a high setting and the patient is still creating negative pressure that probably means that they don't need IPPB. We use IPPB almost exclusively in patients with neuromuscular disease.
