An analysis of the vascular injuries and attempted resuscitation surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Long, CA; Pappas, TN; Southerland, KW; Shortell, CK
Published in: J Vasc Surg
November 2019
Martin Luther King Jr was the most prominent civil rights leader in the United States in the 1960s. He was shot by an assassin in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the shooting he was taken to a local hospital where he had an unsuccessful resuscitation for a right subclavian artery transection. Despite the fact that the circumstances around the assassination have been frequently reported and reviewed in the past 50 years, the specific vascular care of the traumatic injury has not been analyzed. This paper reviews the medical aspects of the King assassination and the management of his subclavian injury.
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J Vasc Surg
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1097-6809
Publication Date
November 2019
Volume
70
Issue
5
Start / End Page
1652 / 1657
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Wounds, Gunshot
- Vascular System Injuries
- Time Factors
- Tennessee
- Subclavian Artery
- Standard of Care
- Shock, Hemorrhagic
- Resuscitation
- Neck
- Medical Audit
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Long, C. A., Pappas, T. N., Southerland, K. W., & Shortell, C. K. (2019). An analysis of the vascular injuries and attempted resuscitation surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. J Vasc Surg, 70(5), 1652–1657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2019.06.203
Long, Chandler A., Theodore N. Pappas, Kevin W. Southerland, and Cynthia K. Shortell. “An analysis of the vascular injuries and attempted resuscitation surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” J Vasc Surg 70, no. 5 (November 2019): 1652–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2019.06.203.
Long CA, Pappas TN, Southerland KW, Shortell CK. An analysis of the vascular injuries and attempted resuscitation surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. J Vasc Surg. 2019 Nov;70(5):1652–7.
Long, Chandler A., et al. “An analysis of the vascular injuries and attempted resuscitation surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” J Vasc Surg, vol. 70, no. 5, Nov. 2019, pp. 1652–57. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.jvs.2019.06.203.
Long CA, Pappas TN, Southerland KW, Shortell CK. An analysis of the vascular injuries and attempted resuscitation surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. J Vasc Surg. 2019 Nov;70(5):1652–1657.
Published In
J Vasc Surg
DOI
EISSN
1097-6809
Publication Date
November 2019
Volume
70
Issue
5
Start / End Page
1652 / 1657
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Wounds, Gunshot
- Vascular System Injuries
- Time Factors
- Tennessee
- Subclavian Artery
- Standard of Care
- Shock, Hemorrhagic
- Resuscitation
- Neck
- Medical Audit