Adjective
That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station.
Source: Webster's dictionarylife saving
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. Joseph Murray
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. Otto Hahn
Hi, I'm bunny the life guard and if there's any life-saving to do I'm the man to do it. Chris Pontius
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. Chris Hadfield
I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings. Roy Blunt
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach