Dallas hospital posts live tweets of heart transplant
Published 5:29 am Tuesday, February 17, 2015
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas hospital has live-tweeted a heart transplant operation, offering Internet users a front row seat.
KXAS-TV reports a medical team traded in a scalpel for a smartphone Monday to post Twitter updates of the surgery that occurred at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
It was the first time the hospital says it has reported live updates of a heart transplant on a social media website.
The patient, whose name wasn’t released, agreed to let the hospital report on the surgery. Some tweets ranged from doctors preparing for the operation to waiting for the donor heart.
The hospital said the operation went as planned, adding the patient was resting Monday night in the intensive care unit.
You can see the tweets by searching for the Twitter hashtag #HeartTXLive at http://bit.ly/1yQJOz9 .
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