life support
/ˈlaɪf səˌpɔrt/
adjective
- Relating to or providing medical life-support equipment or systems.
- They installed a life-support system in the ambulance.
- The hospital has a dedicated life-support unit for critical patients.
- Life-support training is required for all intensive care nurses.
noun
- Medical equipment or techniques used to keep a person alive when their vital organs are not functioning properly.
- Modern life-support machines can help a person breathe and maintain heart function.
- Doctors decided to remove life-support when there was no hope of recovery.
- The patient was kept on life-support after the accident until his condition improved.
- Something that provides essential support or sustenance to keep a system, organization, or activity going.
- The government grant was the life-support for the struggling community center.
- The new funding acted as a life-support for the failing business.
- Without volunteers, the charity would be on life-support.