Makani Science

Makani Science is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Reinventing respiration monitoring

Existing respiratory monitoring has lag time in detecting dangerous breathing events, a growing risk given more outpatient procedures using sedation, heavy post-operative opioid use, and an aging population with conditions like obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Makani Science built a wearable patch sensor that continuously and noninvasively monitors respiratory rate, tidal volume, and minute ventilation, streaming real-time breathing waveforms to a mobile device so clinicians can detect and manage respiratory events with no lag time.

The page cites a physician quote calling it 'a simple, direct and intuitive way to know how the patient is breathing,' emphasizing continuous, wireless, noninvasive real-time monitoring on standard mobile platforms as its edge over existing devices like pulse oximetry, capnography, and spirometry.

Co-founded by Dr. Michelle Khine, a UC Irvine professor of biomedical engineering, along with Michael Chu, PhD; the sensor technology originated in Khine's university lab.