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...

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. The name has origin at first Earth Summit of...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

they tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon, including the LM engines, backpack life support systems, navigation systems and docking...

Such systems can potentially serve as a life-support system during space flights, in space stations or space habitats. In a closed ecological system, any...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Exploration Systems (AES) program. The suits are being designed to be used for both micro-gravity and planetary EVAs. Along with a NASA designed life support system...

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...

She was stricken with myasthenia gravis and was connected to a life support system designed by her husband Jonathan Webb, which included a series of...

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

concepts for life support and the Mars Surface Exploration Spacesuit System, and it included the pressure suit and the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) that...

and revitalization systems, the cooling systems (air, water, and freon), and the supply/waste water system. MPSR positions Life support – monitored atmospheric...