Please congratulate Kaden! He’s thriving after our #Oakland trauma team saved his life almost six years ago, following a tractor accident. Kaden was just four years old when a tractor ran him over while he vacationed with his family in #Ukiah. He suffered multiple life-threatening injuries, including a broken femur, two broken arms, a fractured pelvis and scapula, a lacerated liver, bruised lungs and severe internal bleeding from his spleen. A local hospital in Ukiah removed Kaden’s spleen in an emergency surgery, and then he came by helicopter to our Oakland hospital’s pediatric #traumacenter, which is one of only seven trauma centers for kids in #California with a Level 1 designation. Our team performed three additional surgeries and cared for Kaden for five more days before Dr. Aaron Jensen was able to share the news the family had been waiting for: They were confident Kaden would pull through. “It was the best feeling in the world,” his dad, Karl, says. What followed was ...