King served as Lieutenant Colonel and combat surgeon in the US Army while serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he learned valuable lessons that translated to the emergency room at MGH when he began there in 2008.
"There is no question that our patients now are benefiting from lessons learned in the past decade of war,” King said in 2013.
He saved lives after the Boston Marathon bombing.He saved officers shot in East Boston last week.He’s saving more...
Posted by FOX25 News on Tuesday, October 18, 2016
One of those lessons was the impact a tourniquet can have on a life-saving situation.
King re-introduced the battlefield treatment technique through a program that trains teachers, school nurses, and recently a group of Boston police officers.
Those techniques were used to help the officers shot in East Boston before they were brought to MGH.
“The officer who actually applied it, just came off of training just this past Thursday/so you talk about a coincidence really paying off for us,” Evans said last week.
Since this story aired, several people who have been treated by Dr. King's team have reached out to WFXT, including one man who said his heart needed to be manually restarted twice during surgery after being shot several times at point blank range.
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