Life support (disambiguation)
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Life support is a set of therapies for preserving a patient's life when essential body systems are not functioning sufficiently to sustain life.
Life support may also refer to:
In reality
- Advanced cardiac life support, urgent treatment for life-threatening emergencies
- Basic life support, prehospital care provided by trained responders
- Life support (aviation), the field centered on ensuring the safety of aircrew
- Life support system, the technologies uses in human spaceflight
In entertainment
- "Life Support" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), third season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Life Support (TV series), Australian television comedy
- Life Support (UK TV series), a 1999 British medical drama
- Life Support (film), 2007 movie
- A song in the Jonathan Larson musical Rent
- Life Support (album), a 1979 album by Air Supply
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