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Life support keeps the body alive by doing the work of bodily functions that are failing. WebMD explains what life support includes, when it's needed, and when it might be stopped.
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.
What is life support? The term “life support” refers to any combination of machines and medication that keeps a person’s body alive when their organs would otherwise stop working.
Life support refers to a variety of medical procedures that aim to keep you alive until your body is ready to take over again. Life support replaces or supports a body function that’s failing. Your healthcare providers may use life support until your body can resume normal functioning.
Life support refers to machines or medications that keep someone alive when one or more vital organs stop working. This can happen when the heart, lungs, or brain are so severely injured that they can’t work on their own.
Sign up for a Basic Life Support (BLS) course from the American Heart Association. Teaches basic life support skills for application in both prehospital and in-facility environments.
Basic Life Support, or BLS, generally refers to the type of care that first-responders, healthcare providers and public safety professionals provide to anyone who is experiencing cardiac arrest, respiratory distress or an obstructed airway.
AED indicates automated external defibrillator; ALS, advanced life support; BLS, basic life support; and CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Watch the video and explore the difficult choices surrounding life-support decisions.
Life support replaces or supports a failing bodily function. When patients have curable or treatable conditions, life support is used temporarily until the illness or disease can be stabilized and the body can resume normal functioning.