Vik Veer

Consultant ENT Surgeon

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

Latest Contribution

Does CPAP help diabetes?

1 September 2018 | | CPAP, Diabetes, Glycemic control, Meta-analysis, OSA, RCT

This meta-analysis and review of the literature examines the long-held belief that CPAP treatment improves glucose levels in patients with OSA. As usual in these cases, thousands of articles were initially flagged up in the search with only six RCTs...

A review of DISE classification systems

1 July 2018 | | Classification, Drug-induced sedation endoscopy, Review, Sleep, Sleep apnea, Upper airway obstruction

This article looks at the wide variety of classification systems currently available for interpreting drug induced sleep endoscopy (DISE).The fact that there are so many classification systems, suggests that there is: A) a lot of disagreement about how DISE should...

How useful is AHI?

1 September 2017 | | Obstructive sleep apnea, Pittsburgh sleep quality index, Quality of life, WHOQOL-BREF

There is a growing unease in the sleep medicine world about the usefulness of the apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI). Most of our objective evidence about obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is in some way related to the AHI, and the respiratory physicians...