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...

The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) is an integrated compendium of twenty one encyclopedias. The name has origin at first Earth Summit of...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Aggregate Compartment (AO) housed the life support system, the power supply systems and parts of the thermal control system. The cockpit was similar in layout...

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

The circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human...

monitored or controlled diving rebreather systems, saturation diving systems, and many medical life-support systems use galvanic oxygen sensors in their control...