Regions Hospital in St. Paul, North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, and HCMC in Minneapolis all reported an uptick in patients with ice-related injuries. Regions Hospital clinicians treated more than 70 patients in its ED Feb. 4, while HCMC saw more than 60 patients.
“People are coming in really fast and it’s taking a lot of work to keep up with it,” Andrew Laudenbach, MD, an emergency medicine physician at HCMC, told CBS Minnesota. “The main thing we are seeing a lot of today is slip and fall on ice and broken bones, dislocation, sprains, bruises, head injuries, back pain.”
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