July 8, 2010 - Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced enrollment of the first patient in its MultiSENSE clinical trial. The trial is designed to evaluate multiple physiologic sensors in the Company's COGNIS™ cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds). Boston Scientific plans to use the trial data to help develop a clinical alert that identifies the early onset of worsening heart failure. The first patient was enrolled by Paul Coffeen, M.D., Austin Heart, Austin, Texas, where Jeffrey Whitehill, M.D., Medical Chair, Electrophysiology Department, is the site's Principal Investigator.When combined with the Company's LATITUDE® Patient Management System, CRT-D sensors would be able to monitor a patient outside of a clinical setting and permit the LATITUDE system to deliver early notification to the physician when the patient's heart failure worsens.
"Heart failure is a complex disease and physicians use a number of diagnostics to assess a patient's condition and disease progression,"... Boston Scientific's Press Release -
