n :  equipment, material, and treatment needed to keep a seriously ill or injured patient alive <research shows that if basic life support is used on serious trauma victims within four minutes and advanced life support within eight, nearly 50% of them survive -Nancy Gibbs et al>  <was on full life support for three weeks -Richard Hoffer>  .
 
 
 
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