Putting AI to the test during cardiac procedures at RI

Machine-assisted: Dr. Daniel Philbin, cardiologist and director of the arrhythmia service at Lifespan Heart and Vascular Institute, in the operating room with Volta Medical Inc’s VX1 device. Which helps in excision surgeries. PBN Photo/Michael Salerno

New artificial intelligence technology is helping doctors perform ablation — minimally invasive surgeries used to treat certain heart conditions — more efficiently, and only 11 hospitals in the United States use them. One of them is in Rhode Island. The Rhode Island Hospital became the first hospital in New England to use the VX1 prosthetic from Volta Medical…

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