Toronto hospital to live-tweet heart surgery: Follow along here

Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital will become the first Canadian hospital to live-tweet a surgery this morning, CTV News reports, sharing the details about the procedure with an online audience in the name of education.

Starting at 8 a.m. EST, you can follow the @Sunnybrook account (or follow along in our live feed here) to read 140-character tweets about and see photographs and videos from the surgery as it is performed.

"What's happening will be explained very simply for a lay audience, with the goal of educating the public about heart disease and coronary artery bypass," hospital spokesperson Marie Sanderson told CTV.

You can also follow the reaction on Twitter by searching for the hashtag #SBheart.

The patient for the surgery is a man named Lou, who turns 57 today.