Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs NFL playoff game in January had to undergo amputations after getting frostbite, a Missouri hospital said on Friday.
Research Medical Center did not provide exact numbers, but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January.
Twelve of those people — including some who were at the Jan. 13 game — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes, it said.
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More surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks as “injuries evolve,” it added.
The University of Kansas hospital said it also treated frostbite victims after the game, but did not report any amputations.
The temperature for the Dolphins-Chiefs wild-card playoff game was minus-20°C and wind gusts made for a windchill of minus-33°C. That shattered the record for the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium history, which had been minus-17°C, set in a 1983 game against the Denver Broncos and matched in 2016 against the Tennessee Titans.
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The game went on as scheduled despite the US National Weather Service warning of “dangerously cold” windchills.
Frostbite can occur on exposed skin within 30 minutes, said Megan Garcia, medical director at the Grossman Burn Center at Research Medical Center.
The timing can be even shorter if there is a windchill, she added.
Fans were allowed to bring heated blankets into the stadium and small pieces of cardboard to place under their feet on the concrete.
The coldest game in NFL history remains minus-25°C for the 1967 NFL championship, when the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field in a game that came to be known as the Ice Bowl.
The windchill that day was minus-44°C.
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