Introduction: Surgical critical ill patients are studied with the various perspectives such as diseases, management of such patients and palmistry etc. It is observed from the existing literature that role of palmistry in surgery is in initial stage and very few studies are available in medical research related to it. This observation leads the way to conduct a study on palmistry. The present study on life line- a part of palmistry is designed to evaluate length of life line and interruptions on life line to find relation with actual survival of surgical critical ill patients.