Wow: UCLA surgeons live-tweet brain surgery [Vine videos]
http://twitter.com/#!/UCLAHealth/status/337559763959300096
Now here’s something you don’t see on Twitter every day. UCLA’s Health System used Vine videos and Instagram photos to give Twitter readers the opportunity to watch brain surgery in near real-time. The patient has Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. During the procedure, he was awakened. Then, incredibly, he played guitar while neurosurgeon Dr. Nader Pouratian implanted a device called a brain pacemaker.
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Remarkable. We hope the patient has a good recovery.
UCLA Health spokeswoman Roxanne Yamaguchi Moster told the Los Angeles Times the purpose of the live-tweeting exercise was to draw attention to a medical device called a brain pacemaker. The device is used to treat not only Parkinson’s Disease and tremors, but also epilepsy, depression, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases.
Unfortunately, Obamacare imposes an excise tax on medical devices, and we assume this tax applies to the brain pacemaker. Don’t be surprised if the pace of innovation slows down.
Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/05/23/wow-ucla-surgeons-live-tweet-brain-surgery-vine-videos/
