In regards to US presidential shootings, when would medicine have actually become modern enough for various assassinated US Presidents to survive? I suspect that even nowadays both Lincoln and JFK would have still died since they were shot in the head, but when exactly would medicine have become modern enough for Garfield and McKinley to survive their shootings?
In regards to Garfield, it's actually a common misconception that he died from infections caused by his doctors. In reality, the more likely explanation for Garfield's death is that his shooting triggered cholecystitis (an inflammation of his gallbladder, which can sometimes occur as a result of trauma even when this trauma does not itself directly affect the gallbladder), which subsequently caused Garfield's downhill decline starting from late July 1881 and also that the fact that Guiteau's bullet grazed Garfield's splenic artery resulted in the creation of a pseudoaneurysm on this artery which prevented Garfield from bleeding to death right after he was shot but did cause Garfield to bleed to death almost 80 days later when it finally ruptured, as pseudoaneurysms sometimes tend to do:
The article above says that the first successful case of cholecystectomy occurred in 1882, one year after President Garfield's untimely death. But when was the first successful case of treating/removing an aneurysm or pseudoaneurysm on one's splenic artery?
And what about McKinley's bullet wounds? When would modern medicine have actually become developed enough to have saved McKinley's life?
In regards to Garfield, it's actually a common misconception that he died from infections caused by his doctors. In reality, the more likely explanation for Garfield's death is that his shooting triggered cholecystitis (an inflammation of his gallbladder, which can sometimes occur as a result of trauma even when this trauma does not itself directly affect the gallbladder), which subsequently caused Garfield's downhill decline starting from late July 1881 and also that the fact that Guiteau's bullet grazed Garfield's splenic artery resulted in the creation of a pseudoaneurysm on this artery which prevented Garfield from bleeding to death right after he was shot but did cause Garfield to bleed to death almost 80 days later when it finally ruptured, as pseudoaneurysms sometimes tend to do:
The article above says that the first successful case of cholecystectomy occurred in 1882, one year after President Garfield's untimely death. But when was the first successful case of treating/removing an aneurysm or pseudoaneurysm on one's splenic artery?
And what about McKinley's bullet wounds? When would modern medicine have actually become developed enough to have saved McKinley's life?
