Guidant to Use LifeShirt to Develop Heart Failure Devices

To aid its development of new diagnostic and therapeutic features for future heart failure devices, Guidant Corp. (Indianapolis, IN, USA) has signed a contract with VivoMetrics (Ventura, CA, USA) that will permit Guidant to use the LifeShirt monitoring system of VivoMetrics over the next four years for research purposes. Guidant has also licensed the company's VivoLogic software for processing and analyzing the collected data.

The LifeShirt system is a noninvasive, continuous ambulatory monitoring system that collects data on cardiac and respiratory function and other physiologic parameters and correlates them over time. The sensors monitor heart function, posture, and physical activity. A diary captures subjective patient experiences. Guidant plans to use the system to monitor changes in physiologic signals associated with congestive heart failure (CHF).

"The LifeShirt system will allow us, for the first time, to obtain data gathered simultaneously from a suite of physiologic sensors on a long-term, ambulatory basis. Prior to this, it has not been practical to gather data with high fidelity continuously, day after day, as the patients go about their normal daily activities,” said John Hatlestad, managing scientist at Guidant for the project.




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