Blisters & burns: Omaha emergency rooms see uptick of cold-weather-related injuries
Blisters & burns: Omaha emergency rooms see uptick of cold-weather-related injuries Ashly Richardson © Provided by Omaha WOWT WOWT OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Over the past three days, emergency rooms in the Omaha-metro have been hearing one icy tale after another. “Somebody got locked out of their house. They had to walk five miles; they didn’t know where to go. They came here, and they were frigid,” says Dr. Corbi Redli, CHI Health Immanuel. Most of the patients coming through the doors at CHI Immanuel were able to go home with minor blisters from the cold. “It’s the f...