'They need amputations', say doctors after Chiefs fans develop frostbite and 'life-changing injuries' at playoff game | 0A5I6AA | 2024-03-08 02:08:01
On January 13, Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri crammed with over 71,000 followers, despite the temperat
FOR some Kansas City Chiefs fans, witnessing their wildcard win towards the Miami Dolphins in January has value them dearly.
On January 13, Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri crammed with over 71,000 followers, despite the temperature plummeting to -27 with wind chill come kickoff.
The coldest recreation in Chiefs history left some fans with injuries that may stick with them for the remainder of their lives.
Grossman Burn Middle Medical Director, Dr. Megan Garcia, advised an area Fox affiliate that they acquired dozens of sufferers affected by frostbite in January – lots of whom had been at the Chiefs' 2-7 win on the 13th.
Now two months on, around 70 % of those followers have been advised to schedule amputations, as per Dr. Garcia.
One such fan took their gloves off for just five minutes while putting up a tent at the tailgate.
"The patients who had their frostbite accidents together with the Chiefs recreation, they're just getting to the purpose now we are starting to talk about their amputations that is perhaps mandatory," Dr. Garcia stated.
Thankfully for around 30 % of those affected, a number of weeks in a hyperbaric oxygen tank has meant that they may keep away from amputations.
But regardless of this, their injuries will nonetheless last a lifetime.
"It's still a lifelong process," Dr. Garcia stated.
"They'll have sensitivity and pain for the rest of their lives and all the time will probably be extra vulnerable to frostbite in the future.
"So we're additionally educating them to ensure they keep warm for the years and months to return."
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> Not that it was just frostbite that affected fans.
Following the game, it was revealed that seven individuals had been transported to an space hospital suffering from hypothermia, as per a Kansas Metropolis Hearth Division spokesperson, by way of USA Today.
And, in fact, it wasn't just fans who had to cope with the antagonistic circumstances.
"I was chilly as f**okay," Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, whose associate Taylor Swift was additionally in attendance on the recreation in a personal suite, stated on his New Heights podcast.
He went on to elucidate to his co-host and brother Jason, "You may really feel it in your arms, you would feel it in your toes, your face, everybody noticed coach [Andy] Reid's (frozen) stache.
"I might really feel my mustache hardening up. It was surprising how chilly it was.
"That was in all probability the first recreation I had ever caught myself, even during a drive, if I acquired taken out for a play, like operating over to the heaters to heat up my palms and my ft to attempt to get feeling again.
"It was that freaking chilly."
In an try and combat the chilly, Kelce stated some gamers used hand heaters of their pockets and footwear.
Sadly, this backfired for one unnamed Chiefs participant who suffered "Golf [ball] sized blisters on the top of his ft."
Taylor Swift was in attendance at the coldest recreation in the staffs history[/caption]
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The game reached -27 with windchill at kickoff[/caption]
Head coach Andy Reids mustache even froze in the course of the recreation[/caption]
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