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...

A primary (or portable or personal) life support system (or subsystem) (PLSS), is a device connected to an astronaut or cosmonaut's spacesuit, which allows...

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

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...

Bioregenerative life support systems (BLSS) are artificial ecosystems consisting of many complex symbiotic relationships among higher plants, animals,...

The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) is an integrated compendium of twenty one encyclopedias. One of the largest database repositories on the...

up life support in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Life support is a set of therapies for preserving a patient's life when essential body systems are...

sanitation systems, and equipment function are monitored and controlled. The life support system is operated by the life-support technicians under the life-support...

[citation needed] Life support functions and technology are also prominent in the field of human spaceflight. An example of a life support system for aircraft...

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...

operations. A life support technician is a person registered as competent to operate the life-support systems of a mixed gas saturation diving system. Divers...

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

The Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative (MELiSSA) is a European Space Agency (ESA) initiative with the aim to develop the technology for...

In systems engineering, information systems and software engineering, the systems development life cycle (SDLC), also referred to as the application development...

man-made ecosystems. Such systems can potentially serve as a life-support system or space habitats. In a closed ecological system, any waste products produced...

refer to: Environmental Control and Life Support System, support system of crewed spacecraft Extracorporeal life support, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation...

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...

A safety-critical system or life-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in one (or more) of the following outcomes: death...

the Skylab EMU, NASA elected to use an umbilical life support system named the Astronaut Life Support Assembly. The suits used during lunar EVAs had a...

or non-mobile installation is more likely to be referred to as a life-support system. Rebreather technology may be used where breathing gas supply is...

was required on the Apollo 13 mission), and use of the portable life support system backpack outside the LM cabin. After launching on March 3, 1969,...

International Space Station (ISS) Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is a life support system that provides or controls atmospheric pressure, fire...

A liver support system or diachysis is a type of therapeutic device to assist in performing the functions of the liver. Such systems focus either on removing...

Integrated logistics support (ILS) is a technology in the system engineering to lower a product life cycle cost and decrease demand for logistics by the...

grown premature lamb fetuses for four weeks in an extra-uterine life support system. A 14-day rule prevents human embryos from being kept in artificial...

After being stricken with myasthenia gravis, she is connected to a life support system designed by her husband Jonathan Webb, which includes a series of...

into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system. The crew, supported by backup systems on the lunar module (LM), instead looped around...

several people is usually referred to as being part of a life-support system, and a life-support system for one person may include breathing apparatus, when...

Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) is a course offered by the American Heart Association (AHA) for health care providers who take care of children...

activity (EVA) more complex space suits are worn, featuring a portable life support system. Pressure suits are in general needed at low pressure environments...