Children’s Mercy tweeting surgery Tuesday afternoon

Children’s Mercy Hospital will be tweeting a two-hour operation starting around 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Here’s the details:

The surgery will be performed on a 10-year-old international patient

who suffered severe burns on his neck at a New Year’s Eve fireworks

event in his hometown 6 months ago. Plastic surgeon, Virender “Vinny”

Singhal, MD, Medical Director of the Cleft Palate/Craniofacial Section

and Section Chief of Plastic Surgery, will be performing the surgery to

insert tissue expanders into the patient’s neck.

The Kansas City Star says the procedure will be “the nation’s first pediatric plastic surgery operation to be reported live on Twitter.”

Click here to follow along as the residents, physician assistants and staff tweet from the OR. They’ll also be answering questions.