Life support system definition

Life support system means any medical procedure or intervention which, when applied to an individual, would serve only to postpone the moment of death or maintain the individual in a state of permanent unconsciousness, including, but not limited to, mechanical or electronic devices, including artificial means of providing nutrition or hydration;
Life support system means a system comprising the breathing mixture supply systems, decompression and recompression equipment, environmental control systems and equipment and supplies that may be required to provide safe accommodation for a person in the water, in a compression chamber, in a diving bell, in a diving submersible or in an ADS under all pressures and conditions that a person may be exposed to during a diving operation; (système de survie)
Life support system means any system, process or cycle that provides or contributes to the conditions necessary to sustain life.

Examples of Life support system in a sentence

  • Life support system s must be required throughout the period of unconsciousness.


More Definitions of Life support system

Life support system means the gas supply, breathing gas system, decompression equipment, environmental control system and equipment required to provide a safe environment for the divers in the diving bell and the deck decompression chamber under all ranges of pressure and conditions they may be exposed to during diving operations.