Look up: life-support

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   Life support
   Life support: 1. A therapy or device designed to preserve someone's life when an essential bodily system is not doing so. Life support may, for example, involve enteric feeding (by a tube), total parenteral nutrition, mechanical ventilation, a pacemaker, defibrillator, heart/lung machine, or dialysis. 2. Something that sustains life, as in 'The ear ...
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   Life support
   `Life support`, in the medical field, refers to a set of therapies for preserving a patient's life when essential body systems are not functioning sufficiently to sustain life unaided. Life support therapies utilize some combination of several techniques: feeding tubes, intravenous drips, total parenteral nutrition, mechanical respiration, heart/lung bypass, urinary catheterization and dialysis. The same techniques are also used for intensive car...
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   life support
   any device or technique used to maintain life functions or necessities for maintaining life, such as when a patient's bodily functions have ceased to function or when a person is in an extreme environment such as a space shuttle. advanced life support(ALS) a level of emerg...
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   life support
   The subsystems aboard a manned spacecraft or space station that maintain a livable environment within a pressurized crew compartment. They provide oxygen, drinking water, waste processing, temperature control, and carbon dioxide removal.
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   life-support
   [adj] - of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life
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   Life-support
   Life-support: Pertaining to life support, as in 'He is only here because of the life-support systems.
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   life-support
   adjective of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life
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   Lifesaving Life Support
   `Lifesaving Life Support` refers to the series of exams implemented by the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS) in order to assess a lifesaver's ability in on land rescue technique. There are three life support exams and at each level the standard expected of the individual is increased with the final test, Life Support 3, allowing for minimal to no errors. These exams can be taken by anyone from the age of 12 upwards, but are usually taken to cor...
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