Texas hospital livestreams brain surgery on Facebook

In this October 29, 2019, still image taken from a video courtesy of Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, Jenna Schardt, 25, remains conscious while neurosurgeons perform brain surgery. [AFP]

A young woman in Texas who remained awake for her brain surgery was able to speak to doctors during the procedure -- and viewers from around the world looked on, as part of the operation was livestreamed on Facebook.

By Wednesday, nearly 100,000 people had watched doctors removed a mass from Jenna Schardt's brain during a 40-minute video of the operation that was livestreamed Tuesday morning.