Definitions for life support
life sup·port

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. life-support system, life supportnoun

   equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions

   "the astronauts relied on their life-support systems"

2. life-support system, life supportadjective

   medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive

   "the patient is on life support"

3. life-supportadjective

   of or pertaining to equipment or methods used to sustain life

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. life supportnoun

   An artificial system designed to provide oxygen in an environment that lacks oxygen.

2. life supportnoun

   A machine that keeps the body of an ill or injured person alive.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Life support

   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. Healthcare providers and emergency medical technicians are generally certified to perform basic and advanced life support procedures; however, basic life support is sometimes provided at the scene of an emergency by family members or bystanders before emergency services arrive. In the case of cardiac injuries, cardiopulmonary resuscitation is initiated by bystanders or family members 25% of the time. Basic life support techniques, such as performing CPR on a victim of cardiac arrest, can double or even triple that patient's chance of survival. Other types of basic life support include relief from choking (which can be done by using the Heimlich maneuver), staunching of bleeding by direct compression and elevation above the heart (and if necessary, pressure on arterial pressure points and the use of a manufactured or improvised tourniquet), first aid, and the use of an automated external defibrillator. The purpose of basic life support (abbreviated BLS) is to save lives in a variety of different situations that require immediate attention. These situations can include, but are not limited to, cardiac arrest, stroke, drowning, choking, accidental injuries, violence, severe allergic reactions, burns, hypothermia, birth complications, drug addiction, and alcohol intoxication. The most common emergency that requires BLS is cerebral hypoxia, a shortage of oxygen to the brain due to heart or respiratory failure. A victim of cerebral hypoxia may die within 8–10 minutes without basic life support procedures. BLS is the lowest level of emergency care, followed by advanced life support and critical care.

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1. life support

   Life support refers to the treatments and techniques performed in emergency situations, which are designed to support and maintain life when vital body functions, such as heartbeat, breathing, or kidney function, are not working adequately or failing. This typically involves the use of machines or medical substances to artificially replace or assist these functions. Life support can also refer to various medical interventions such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), artificial ventilation or nutrition, kidney dialysis, among others.

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1. Life support

   Life support in medicine is a broad term that applies to any therapy used to sustain a patient's life while they are critically ill or injured, as part of intensive-care medicine. There are many therapies and techniques that may be used by clinicians to achieve the goal of sustaining life. Some examples include: ⁕Feeding tube ⁕Total parenteral nutrition ⁕Mechanical ventilation ⁕Heart/Lung bypass ⁕Urinary catheterization ⁕Dialysis ⁕Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ⁕Defibrillation ⁕Artificial pacemaker ⁕Life extension ⁕Life support system for human spaceflight. These techniques are applied most commonly in the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit and, Operating Rooms. As various life support technologies have improved and evolved they are used increasingly outside of the hospital environment. For example a patient who requires a ventilator for survival are commonly discharged home with these devices. Another example includes the now ubiquitous presence of Automated external defibrillator in public venues which allow lay people to deliver life support in a prehospital environment. The ultimate goals of life support depend on the specific patient situation. Typically life support is used to sustain life while the underlying injury or illness is being treated or evaluated for prognosis. Life support techniques may also be used indefinitely if the underlying medical condition cannot be corrected but a reasonable quality of life can still be expected.

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1. life support

   Read the full text of the Life Support poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of life support in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of life support in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of life support in a Sentence

1. Tanya Kasper:

   So, basically he’s still on life support, we’re just hoping his body fights this off.

2. Jim Carafano:

   The problem is, when you buy oil from Venezuela, essentially what you're doing is you're putting dollars in to prop up the economy and more entrench the Maduro regime, and at the same time, the only reason why this regime is existing at all, is on life support, is because of support from the Chinese, the Russians and the Cubans. So you have really the most detestable regime in Latin America that’s basically subsisting on these external actors.

3. Elijah McKnight in 2019:

   I was out cold for three days on life support, my family didn't know where I was.

4. Joe Valiente:

   Right now, our government and our response capabilities are on life support because we rely totally on generated power. And of course to have generators, State Sen. Kirk Talbot have to have fuel, so fuel has been short because two-thirds of our refinery capabilities were knocked out.

5. Delta BingoCEO Cam Johnston:

   If you cover it, you might as well take away someones life support.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=life support
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Life_Support
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Support
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=life support