by Sutter Health | Nov 20, 2025
By Clayton Warren, Vitals contributor “When I close my eyes and think about what I could have missed, I see my family my wife Fiona, my kids Theo and Oscar. I would have missed out on just being with them.” — Christopher Dowd. It started as an ordinary...
by Sutter Health | Aug 22, 2024
Marche Sheppard spent four months on ECMO, which saved her life and got her strong enough to receive a double-lung transplant. Sutter Roseville pulmonary specialists Drs. Imran Mohammad, left, and Rajkamal Hansra were instrumental in her care. By Debbie Ritenour,...
by Gary Zavoral | Jul 17, 2024
At left, teenage university student Catherine Cai lies in a Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento cardiovascular ICU bed hooked up to a number of machines to keep her alive. Just a few weeks later, right, she was fully recovered, and she and her parents returned to their...
by Gary Zavoral | Mar 7, 2024
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento Children’s Center Receives Highest ECMO Award Twenty weeks into her pregnancy, Lisa and Luckson Emmanuel’s boy was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition called congenital diaphragmatic hernia. With CDH, the organs in the...
