Chinese surgeons use straws to save patient in mid-flight medical emergency

Two Chinese surgeons rigged straws, a syringe needle and tubing from an oxygen mask together with tape to perform a life-saving emergency procedure on a flight from southern China to New York on Tuesday, according to mainland media reports.

Surgeons Zhang Hong, from the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University in Guangzhou, and Xiao Zhanxiang, from Hainan Provincial People’s Hospital in Haikou, responded to a call for medical assistance about 10 hours into the flight, the Guangzhou-based New Express reported on Thursday.