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A life-support system is the combination of equipment that allows survival in an environment or situation that would not support that life in its absence

Life support comprises the treatments and techniques performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs

Controlled (or closed) ecological life-support systems (acronym CELSS) are self-supporting life-support systems for space stations and colonies typically

Advanced Life Support (ALS) is a set of life-saving protocols and skills that extend basic life support to further support the circulation and provide

Basic life support (BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening condition of cardiac arrest until they can be given

Advanced cardiac life support, advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS) refers to a set of clinical guidelines established by the American Heart Association

Hospital where he was put on a life-support machine and treated for multiple organ failure. After being taken off life support, Rafferty recovered for a short

April 4, 2013, leading to a coma and the decision to switch her life support machine off on April 7, 2013. Her death has been attributed to online distribution

brothel. In 1987 Evets was injured in a pub brawl and spent time on a life support machine. He was stabbed through the liver, lung and diaphragm, was glassed

Advanced trauma life support (ATLS) is a training program for medical providers in the management of acute trauma cases, developed by the American College