American surgery transmitted live on Twitter

Since the application of anesthesia to stay in the recovery room, the children of Monna Cleary continued their operation step by step, to 140 characters or less time. The short messaging service Twitter Internet is being used to open the doors to operating rooms so that family and any strangers connected to the network can track the progress of surgery while the patient is living it.
The Cleary family continued the operation of Mona, 70, from a waiting room with a laptop. One of his daughters since he kept up his work.

"It is real time information, instead of sitting without knowing anything in the waiting room," said Joe Cleary, son of the patient, hours after the operation at Saint Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "He helped pass the time," said Cleary, who followed the messages with his brother, two sisters and a sister. "We all felt that was a positive experience."

Monna Cleary agreed with Sarah Corizzo hospital spokeswoman, published step by step procedure of hysterectomy and uterine prolapse surgery on Twitter, a social network that allows you to post messages of no more than 140 characters.
From a computer located outside the sterile area of the theater, Corizzo sent over 300 messages for more than three hours. Nearly 700 people received the messages. Sent eight questions about the procedure and a relative of the patient remarked how fascinating it was to continue the operation.
The main goal of the experiment was educational, Corizzo said, but also served to keep the family informed.

The idea came after a similar operation was broadcast video over the internet a few months ago.
"Many people wanted to enter the operating room and see what happens but do not want the images," said another spokeswoman, Laura Rainey. "This is a more subtle way of informing patients and consumers."
This was not the first surgery transmitted by Twitter, since a Dallas hospital told the operation on a father donated a kidney to his son and another in Detroit also has told several operations.

Gillbret Amanda, wife of the donor kidney, said the operation helped to keep her husband while she was in another hospital with their son.
"Me dio mucha paz y era reconfortante saber qué estaba pasando", say.
When the operation ended Monna Cleary, Corrizo sent a last message, intended for the family of the patient: "She's fine. You'll see soon."