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  • n  equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions
  • n  medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive
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  • Father killed, 4-year-old daughter on life support after wrong way crash
    A father is dead, his 4-year-old daughter is on life support, and his 7-year-old son remains hospitalized after an accidnet in Hamilton Township.
    June 16, 2013 - WPVI 6abc Philadelphia
  • Sheriff: Farmingdale drowning victim on life support
    A two-year-old boy is on life support at Maine Medical Center in Portland after being found floating in an above-ground pool on Thursday morning. There is no indication of brain activity, Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty said. Cody Campbell was home with his mother, two siblings and two friends when his mother was unable to find him. Karla Campbell saw him floating face down in their ...
    June 14, 2013 - WMTW Portland
  • Inmate on life support after fight with detention center officer
    RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- An inmate at the Wake County Detention Center is on life support after a detention officer allegedly beat him up inside the jail.
    June 13, 2013 - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville

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