# Life Support

Skill · Healthcare and Medical

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/life-support

Life support refers to medical equipment and techniques used to sustain vital bodily functions when a patient cannot do so independently, including mechanical ventilators, dialysis machines, feeding tubes, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is a critical area of expertise for healthcare professionals such as ICU nurses, respiratory therapists, and emergency physicians, and also raises significant ethical and legal questions around end-of-life care and patient autonomy. Certifications like Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) train medical personnel in these techniques.

Related skills: [Respiratory Therapy](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/respiratory-therapy)

## Open roles requiring Life Support (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.