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FILE – Kansas Metropolis Chiefs followers who braved sub-zero temperatures have fun after a landing in opposition to the Miami Dolphins through the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Reed Hoffmann, File)
FILE – Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, second from proper, and tight finish Travis Kelce, third from proper, huddle with teammates earlier than an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport in opposition to the Miami Dolphins Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE – A gauge shows the temperature on the sphere at Arrowhead Stadium through the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE – Kansas Metropolis Chiefs followers who braved sub-zero temperatures have fun after a landing in opposition to the Miami Dolphins through the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Reed Hoffmann, File)
FILE – Kansas Metropolis Chiefs followers who braved sub-zero temperatures have fun after a landing in opposition to the Miami Dolphins through the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Reed Hoffmann, File)
FILE – Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, second from proper, and tight finish Travis Kelce, third from proper, huddle with teammates earlier than an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport in opposition to the Miami Dolphins Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE – Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, second from proper, and tight finish Travis Kelce, third from proper, huddle with teammates earlier than an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport in opposition to the Miami Dolphins Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE – A gauge shows the temperature on the sphere at Arrowhead Stadium through the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE – A gauge shows the temperature on the sphere at Arrowhead Stadium through the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff soccer sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. A number of the individuals who attended the near-record chilly Chiefs playoff sport in January needed to bear amputations, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday, March 8, 2024. Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement Friday that a few of the 12 individuals who needed to bear amputations after the chilly snap had been on the sport. (AP Picture/Charlie Riedel, File)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A number of the individuals who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January needed to bear amputations after struggling frostbite, a Missouri hospital mentioned Friday.
Analysis Medical Heart didn’t present precise numbers however mentioned in an announcement that it handled dozens of people that had skilled frostbite throughout an 11-day chilly snap in January. Twelve of these folks — together with some who had been on the Jan. 13 sport — needed to bear amputations involving largely fingers and toes. And the hospital mentioned extra surgical procedures are anticipated over the subsequent two to 4 weeks as “accidents evolve.”
The College of Kansas hospital mentioned it additionally handled frostbite victims after the sport however didn’t report any amputations.
The temperature for the Dolphins-Chiefs wild-card playoff sport was minus 4 levels Fahrenheit (minus 20 Celsius), and wind gusts made for a windchill of minus 27 levels F (minus 33 C). That shattered the document for the coldest sport in Arrowhead Stadium historical past, which had been 1 diploma F (minus 17 C), set in a 1983 sport in opposition to Denver and matched in 2016 in opposition to Tennessee.
The wild-card sport was performed the identical day the Buffalo Payments had been imagined to host the Pittsburgh Steelers, however that sport was pushed again a day as a result of a blizzard dumped as much as 2 ft (0.61 meters) of snow in New York and made touring to the sport too harmful.
The sport in Kansas Metropolis went on as scheduled as a result of the frigid climate didn’t current related issues attending to Arrowhead Stadium, regardless that the Nationwide Climate Service warned of “dangerously chilly” windchills.
Frostbite can happen on uncovered pores and skin inside half-hour, Dr. Megan Garcia, the medical director of the Grossman Burn Heart at Analysis, mentioned in an announcement that answered one of many prime questions she is requested. The timing may be even shorter if there’s a windchill, she mentioned.
Followers had been allowed to carry heated blankets into the stadium and small items of cardboard to position beneath their ft on the chilly concrete.
The coldest sport in NFL historical past stays minus 13 F (minus 25 C) for the 1967 NFL championship, when the Packers beat the Cowboys at Lambeau Subject in a sport that got here to be generally known as the Ice Bowl. The windchill that day was minus 48 F (minus 44 C).
The Chiefs didn’t instantly reply to e mail messages from The Related Press searching for remark.
Stapleton reported from Englewood, Colorado.
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