The Assassination of Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago: A Review of His Postinjury Medical Care

Anton Cermak was the mayor of Chicago in the 1930s. He was injured by an assassin's bullet intended for the president-elect, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Cermak was taken to a local hospital, treated nonoperatively for his injuries, and initially improved. Cermak's condition deteriorated on...

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Autor principal: Pappas, Theodore N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32566747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1709459
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description Anton Cermak was the mayor of Chicago in the 1930s. He was injured by an assassin's bullet intended for the president-elect, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Cermak was taken to a local hospital, treated nonoperatively for his injuries, and initially improved. Cermak's condition deteriorated on the sixth day postinjury, with symptoms that his doctors described as colitis. He died of sepsis on the 19th day after the shooting, and his autopsy revealed a perforated colon causing peritonitis. This study will review Cermak's clinical course and autopsy findings to determine if he died of his gunshot wound or if he died of complications of toxic colitis.
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spelling pubmed-72976422020-06-18 The Assassination of Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago: A Review of His Postinjury Medical Care Pappas, Theodore N. Surg J (N Y) Anton Cermak was the mayor of Chicago in the 1930s. He was injured by an assassin's bullet intended for the president-elect, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Cermak was taken to a local hospital, treated nonoperatively for his injuries, and initially improved. Cermak's condition deteriorated on the sixth day postinjury, with symptoms that his doctors described as colitis. He died of sepsis on the 19th day after the shooting, and his autopsy revealed a perforated colon causing peritonitis. This study will review Cermak's clinical course and autopsy findings to determine if he died of his gunshot wound or if he died of complications of toxic colitis. Thieme Medical Publishers 2020-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7297642/ /pubmed/32566747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1709459 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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