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First live Internet broadcast of open heart surgery full story

In another first for the Internet, a Seattle hospital broadcast live images Tuesday of a woman having open heart surgery. Providence Seattle Medical Center broadcast images of an open-heart bypass on a 57-year old Seattle resident, Gloria Snoddy, taken by a head-mounted camera worn by surgeon Robert Lazzara. "This interactive technology will enable us to communicate in real-time with other physicians and educate the general public on advances in heart surgery anywhere in
the world, at any time," Dr. Lazzara said in a statement issued before surgery began. "The implications of ( the) first Internet transmission of open heart surgery are truly limitless.