Life support typically refers to a ventilation system that lets you breathe even if your lungs are too damaged or ill to do so. However, it also refers to any combination of equipment and medicines that keep a person’s body alive after their organs might cease functioning.
Doctors are able to conduct complex operations because of life support. It can also help individuals who are recuperating from severe injuries live longer. Furthermore, some individuals may need life support on a long-term basis to remain alive.
Starting life support
When it’s apparent that your body needs assistance to maintain your fundamental existence, doctors initiate life support. This may be as a result of:
- blood loss
- an infection that’s become septic
- organ failure
If you have said clearly whether you do not want to be put on life support, the doctor would not proceed with the operation. Two often used commands are:
- (AND) allow natural death
- (DNR) do not resuscitate
If you have a DNR, you will not be resuscitated or provided a breathing machine if you cease breathing or go into cardiac arrest.
Although if you really need medical assistance to remain alive, the doctors will let character hold its course with AND.
