Quick-thinking doctors used what was to hand to help the passenger on board the China Southern Airlines plane that departed from Guangzhou.
Quick-thinking surgeons on board a flight from southern China had to improvise to save the life of an elderly passenger who had almost a litre of urine trapped in his bladder.
The unnamed passenger ran into trouble around 10 hours into the China Southern Airlines flight to New York on Tuesday, after complaining to cabin crew that he could not urinate. With six hours to go before landing, 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 pilot's call for medical assistance, theA China Southern Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner taxis on the runway in Guangzhou, in 2013 in this illustrative image. A doctor on board the airline's plane saved an elderly passenger's life mid-flight by sucking out urine from his bladder.
He said:"The pensioner's abdomen was bloated, he could not sit still and was sweating a lot. He was going into shock and may have suffered a risk to his life if we didn't tend to him urgently." "His family said he had a history of prostate enlargement, so we suspected this was causing urinary retention,"
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