Vik Veer

Consultant ENT Surgeon

Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital and Queens Hospital, Romford, UK.

Latest Contribution

Photo showing Consultant Anaesthetist, Dr Jim Roberts, comfortably asleep in the Exovent whilst undergoing negative pressure ventilation, NPV.

Development of a new negative-pressure ventilatory support device: Exovent

3 September 2021 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology

The pandemic has driven innovation in ways that we have not seen for many decades. Intensive care medicine and ENT have been at the forefront of these advances, and our good friends David Howard (never one to put his feet...

Sleep and Breathing journal cover image.

RCT: tongue retaining devices vs CPAP for OSA

7 January 2021 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Continuous positive airway pressure, Obstructive sleep apnea, TRD, Thai, Tongue-retaining device

This study compared the effect of a tongue retaining device versus the use of CPAP in 27 patients within a crossover RCT design. Tongue retaining devices (also known as tongue stabilising devices), are similar in appearance to a plastic tongue-sized...

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An alternative device for obstructive sleep apnoea

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Apnea–hypopnea index, Intermittent negative air pressure, Intraoral device, Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, Oral pressure therapy, Sleep-disordered breathing

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the first-line treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), primarily due to the vast amount of short-term evidence in the medical literature it has accrued. The enduring obstacle to CPAP from becoming a treatment option...