Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
J Vasc Surg. 2019 Nov;70(5):1652-1657. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2019.06.203.
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.
马丁·路德·金是 20 世纪 60 年代美国最杰出的民权领袖。1968 年 4 月 4 日,他在田纳西州孟菲斯被一名刺客枪杀。枪击发生后,他被送往当地一家医院,在那里他的右锁骨下动脉横断伤抢救无效。尽管过去 50 年来,围绕暗杀事件的情况经常被报道和审查,但创伤性损伤的具体血管护理尚未得到分析。本文回顾了金遇刺的医学方面以及他的锁骨下损伤的处理。