1) Emergency medical procedure
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Life support refers to the emergency treatments and techniques performed in an emergency situation in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Healthcare providers and emergency medical technicians are generally certified to perform basic and advanced life support procedures; however, basic life support is sometimes pro...
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[aviation] Life support, or aircrew life support, in aviation, is the field centered on, and related technologies used in, ensuring the safety of aircrew, particularly military aviation. This includes safety equipment capable of helping them survive in the case of a crash, accident, or malfunction. Life support functions and technology are ...
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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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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: 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: Pertaining to life support, as in 'He is only here because of the life-support systems.
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[
adj] - of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life
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adjective of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life
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