Life support

A life support was a system that helped support life when people could not hold up the strength of life by themselves.

The mad Kaled scientist Davros used a special chair to sustain his life after he became crippled from the Thousand Year War on Skaro. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)

The Doctor's TARDIS contained a life support system. When it turned into a cube, life support started to fail. (TV: Flatline)