Tag: Frank Aprile
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A Collection of ALL TIME Graphics

This Blog & It’s Stunning Art Maps out the intricacies of Open Heart Surgery, and openly engages the peaks and valleys of surgical, ethical, or moral-successes & failures. It highlights moments where lives are saved by the strength of the character of the team- as well as surgical strategies undone by flaws imbued in the…
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Excerpt: Basketball & Heart Surgery

And that’s my life, that’s my chessboard. An old playground, made up from, and used up by… a lot of souls that have their own shots to make, and their own goals to defend. A metaphor for my life in the future I guess, a lot of unmet challenges with unnamed players and unfamiliar playing…
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Excerpt: Epiphany

My immediate mission was to go from nursing station to nursing station, on all four hospital floors, pick up their trash, and shove it down an old garbage/linen chute, and later go to the sub-basement and burn it all in a furnace room that looked like the gateway to hell. It probably did have “Dante”…
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A Day In The Life… [3]
![A Day In The Life… [3]](https://tipsofspears.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/79fa5-img_801311.jpg?w=768)
Low flows = the potential for stasis of blood flowing through the circuit, which in turn can lead to greater susceptibility for clot formation in the oxygenator or extracorporeal circuit.
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A Day In The Life… [2]
![A Day In The Life… [2]](https://tipsofspears.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/e2591-img_9305b.jpg?w=1024)
We found ourselves in the midst of a campaign to get “negative” (in other words- take off more fluid in total, than the 4 liters the patient had received during the initial stages of the ECMO run). And as of tonight, we were starting to win that particular little battle.
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To Alma Public Schools: Veteran’s Day, 2023

Presented By: Frank Aprile, HM2, USN Length of Service: 4.7 years / Honorable Discharge Stationed: Navy Medical Regional Center, San Diego CA Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Ocean Side California U.S. Naval Hospital Emergency Room, Subic Bay, Republic of the Phillipines Operating Room Technical School, Navy Regional Medical Center: Bethesda, MD Naval Hospital, Charleston, SC Dedication: SOMETIMES…
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Excerpt: TipsOfSpears: Epiphany

Editor’s Note: A casual preview of the upcoming book: The Tips Of Spears Epiphany As a junior in High School, I needed to find a way to make money, as it wasn’t going to be coming from an allowance or stipend from my mom or dad. Being in a university town, that prospect wasn’t going…
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Perfusion Art: A COMET’s Tale

Perfusion Art: “A COMET’s Tale” Photographer: Frank Aprile, CCP, BBA, LP Equipment: IPhone 13+ Editing: Photoshop, Correll Paintshop Narrative: Hostile Environment V Patient Abandonment Time & Place: 2023- Somewhere West of the Nova Scotia Deluge About The Artist: CCP Commentary: Looks Bleak TBH 🙂 ___________________________________




![A Day in the Life… [And Then Comes Sunday]](https://tipsofspears.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cce64-img_9305b-1.jpg?w=1024)
![A Day In The Life… [5]](https://tipsofspears.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/79f7b-img_57521.jpg?w=688)
![A Day In The Life… [4]](https://tipsofspears.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/f8c7f-xray1.jpg?w=603)
![A Day In The Life… [1]](https://tipsofspears.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/bfb18-jesse.jpg?w=600)