Houston Hospital To Live Tweet Brain Surgery, Post Pinterest Photos

A Houston hospital is live tweeting a brain surgery this week.

Ever curious about what happens during surgery? A Houston hospital is demystifying the procedure by live tweeting the surgical removal of a patient's brain tumor.

Doctors will live tweet the brain surgery from Houston's Memorial Hermann hospital beginning at 8:30 a.m. EST Wednesday morning, reports Mashable.

Dr. Dong Kim, the neurosurgeon leading the procedure on the 21-year-old female patient, tells ABC news that the point of the brain surgery Twitter broadcast is to educate patients on what happens during surgery.

“The main reason I wanted to do this was for the educational possibilities. I spend a lot of my time with patients on what to expect and what the steps are,” Kim said. “A lot of anxious patients want to know exactly what happens. With this they will be able to see what happens.”

According to ABC News, Dr. Kim's co-worker will live tweet from the operating room using a laptop, while a video camera will shoot clips of the surgery and a photographer will take shots on a digital camera.

The hospital's Twitter page, @houstonhospital, will Tweet each stage of the operation using the hashtag #MHbrain, notes KPRC Houston.

The text updates, video footage and photos from the brain surgery will be broadcast to Twitter, YouTube, TwitPic, CoverItLive, and Pinterest. ABCnews.com, in partnership with the hospital, will also compile these sources as they happen on their website.

This isn't the first time the Houston hospital has live tweeted a surgery. In February, doctors live tweeted open heart surgery.

You can follow @houstonhospital and #mhbrain on Twitter tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EDT.

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Comments

[Fred Williams]

12:30 PM on 05/10/2012

The one tweet you wouldn't want to read......"Oop's".

[Justthefacts425]

10:18 AM on 05/09/2012

You want to educate me? Do a video! If you have got your fingers in my brain doing major surgery, then keep them there. Don't be doing twitter, FB or anything else. Please be assured to the fullest extint that if my surgery doesn't go well, my or my family will have all rights to everything you own because you can't put your phone down!

[Stella40]

02:03 PM on 05/09/2012

I believe it said his co-worker would be doing the tweeting, not the surgeon. This girl is lucky...her surgery is guaranteed to go well because everyone is watching. My husband had a tumor removed at MD Anderson in Houston. The surgeon called a few days before and asked if it would be OK for the local TV station to do a story on him and the new "Brain Suite" facility. Not that they don't take awesome care of every patient, but again...guaranteed success! As far as educating, he is correct. We were scared and didn't know what to expect. This would've been a good thing to see before surgery. Do be so quick to criticize. If you had to go through this you would understand.

[Stella40]

02:12 PM on 05/09/2012

Sorry..."Don't" be so quick to criticize. Just a little typo.

[duh]

09:05 PM on 05/08/2012

After a day of reading various news sites and the HP I want my brain removed. It can be live tweeted, I won't care.