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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 highly trained individuals living and breathing this volatile work environment.


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  • Excerpt:  Basketball & Heart Surgery

    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:  A Foward from LVAD 1

    Excerpt: A Foward from LVAD 1

    It is ironic that Frank calls me a hero, where he and all perfusionists are the real heroes… perhaps we all are heroes, the way a Bull Rider straps to a bull and completes his or her 8 second ride.

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  • Excerpt: Epiphany

    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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  • We Are Growing !

    We Are Growing !

    Not too bad.. 67 Countries and counting. We are establishing a very good sized readership. The book shall be released this Summer 2025- Thankyou for your encouraging words and support- Frank

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  • Excerpt- “Let’s go on Sucker Bypass!”

    Excerpt- “Let’s go on Sucker Bypass!”

    A shower of betadine hits the patient’s chest like a like a firemen’s bucket parade- dousing a fire, surgical drapes are thrown down, lines are passed off and divided, chest or femoral incisions are made, patient is heparinized and when that ACT hits 350 seconds?  We are going on bypass Baybee! 

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  • PerfusionART:  “PluggedIN”

    PerfusionART: “PluggedIN”

    PerfusionART: “ PluggedIN ” Photographer: Frank Aprile, CCP, BBA, LP Equipment: IPhone 15+ Editing: Photoshop, Correll Paintshop Narrative: A Different Perspective on our Tethers Time & Place:   2024- Somewhere South of Hudson Bay About The Artist:  CCP Commentary:  All About Life Lines… 🙂

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