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Doctor uses makeshift nebulizer to save boy with asthma attack on plane

The doctor used an oxygen mask, an oxygen tank, a water bottle, a plastic cup and a passenger’s adult inhaler to make a nebulizer for the 2-year-old

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — MacGyver, eat your heart out.

A New York doctor became a mile-high hero when he created a makeshift device that helped an asthmatic toddler struggling to breathe during a transatlantic flight.

Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, told Clayton Morris on “Fox and Friends Weekend” that he was on an Air Canada flight from Spain to the U.S. on Sept. 18 when he was notified of a toddler in trouble.

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