Analysis Medical Middle in Kansas Metropolis announced on Friday that some followers who attended the Miami Dolphins-Kansas Metropolis Chiefs AFC Wild Card sport at Arrrowhead Stadium on Jan. 13 needed to endure amputations from frostbite.
The College of Kansas hospital did not report any amputations, however did say it handled followers for frostbite after the sport.
Previous to kickoff, the Nationwide Climate Service warned of “extraordinarily harmful” temperatures.
Kansas Metropolis may have "extraordinarily harmful" temps on Saturday night time.<br><br>"Cowl all extremities together with your head and face," the Nationwide Climate Service says.<br><br>Dolphins-Chiefs kickoff forecast is now -1 diploma with a -23 wind chill.
It really wound up being colder than anticipated at minus-four levels with wind gusts as much as 27 mph that made for a minus-27 diploma windchill. It was the fourth-coldest sport in NFL historical past.
The Kansas Metropolis Hearth Division announced just a few days after the sport that 15 individuals who attended the sport had been transported to native hospitals, with seven being handled for hypothermia and three for frostbite. The opposite 5 had been handled for “non-weather-related points.”
Analysis Medical Middle did not present a precise quantity for sufferers who needed to endure amputations, however did notice it handled “dozens of individuals” who skilled frostbite stemming from an 11-day chilly snap within the Kansas Metropolis space in January.
Per ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques, the NFL elected to not postpone the sport as a result of there have been “no public security journey issues for attending to the stadium” for followers, gamers, staff or stadium personnel.