Elizabeth McGloughlin, Tympany Medical

Tympany Medical is a spin-out company from NUIG developing a novel endoscope which will revolutionise how ear surgeons operate.

Tympany Medical is designing and developing a novel combined access and visualisation device which will enable ear surgeons to ‘see around the corners’ of the ear canal. This will allow surgeons to perform trans-canal ear surgery with a wide endoscopic view of the surgical site, thereby avoiding unnecessarily invasive surgery.

For Patients it will:

• Enable true minimally invasive ear surgery, which can be performed under local anaesthetic
• Reduce mastoidectomies therefore maintaining mastoid function and associated benefits

For Surgeons it will:

• Improve the surgeon’s view of the surgical site
• Create simple access to surgical site with imbedded retraction capabilities
• Maintain the current surgical technique (two-handed)
• Provide ergonomic benefits for surgeons

For Hospitals:

• Shorter procedure times resulting in lower costs to healthcare system
• Reduce number of outpatient appointments
• OtoVuTM is an enabling and empowering technology that preserves the two-handed operating technique associated with the microscope.