A transportable life support system (10) for providing medical care to a patient while transporting the patient from one location to another has a platform configured to receive the patient, a plurality of medical devices (14a-14f) attached to the platform for providing medical monitoring and medical therapy to the patient, and a control and display panel (16) comprising controls and displays for the medical devices. The control and display panel provide a centralized location for monitoring and controlling the medical devices so as to mitigate a need for an operator to move about the platform in order to individually observe a display for each medical device and to individually control each medical device.
