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{{Short description|Emergency medical care by first responder }} {{for|techniques and equipment for keeping a patient alive longer term|life support}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2020}} '''Basic life support''' ('''BLS''') is a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening condition of cardiac arrest until they can be given full medical care by [[advanced life support]] providers (paramedics, nurses, physicians or any trained general personnel). It can be provided by trained medical personnel, such as [[emergency medical technician]]s, qualified bystanders and anybody who is trained for providing BLS and/or ACLS.
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