NousQ

NousQ’s CLiKX is the world’s first handheld robotic device with sensors to treat Otitis Media with Effusion (OME ). OME is the condition where fluid is trapped behind the ear drum in the middle ear space chronically. It is the number one reason for a child’s hearing loss, visit to the doctors, use of antibiotics and general anesthesia (GA). Untreated, there is speech, language and learning delay; brain infection, reduced work and social option and great caregiver burden. When medications fail, surgery is required to place a tiny ear tube onto the ear drum. The current surgery requires many different instruments, an operating theatre, GA and an expensive non- portable surgical microscope. CLiKX can move the surgery out of the operating theatre into the clinic, as it does away with GA and
the microscope. This drastically reduces treatment delay, cost, risk and inequity. Currently, only 18 million children can get to the surgery. With CLiKX, 120 million children can be helped.