"avert death" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to convey the idea of avoiding a potentially fatal outcome. For example, "Through his quick thinking, the doctor was able to avert death and save the patient's life."
Ultimately, Sathya Sai Baba's protracted struggle to avert death demonstrated that, even as a human, he was merely ordinary.
One explanation for the ineffectiveness of the annual exam in reducing the death rate is that it does little to avert death or disability from acute problems.
In The Year of Magical Thinking, an account of her first year of widowhood, Joan Didion wrote of "how open we are to the persistent message that we can avert death".
Although production is much faster than would have been possible even a few years ago, it still may not be in time to avert death and illness if the virus starts spreading widely and becomes more virulent, some experts said.
The advisability of screening seems obvious, as screening has been shown to provide for lung cancer treatment at a relatively early stage, leading to a better chance to avert death from lung cancer than when treatment is prompted by symptoms and/or signs.
As an alternative to Republican-sponsored legislation in 1996, Mr. Clinton's staff outlined four options, and he focused on one that would ban the procedure even before the fetus was viable except to avert death or serious health consequences for the woman.
Specifically: DT=NDA×DD+Σ (NMA×DM) where DT=total DALYs averted; NDA=number of deaths averted; DD=DALYs averted per death averted; NMA=number of severe morbid events averted; and DM=DALYs averted per morbid event averted.
Study finds that starting colorectal cancer screening at age 45 would avert deaths, but testing more older people would be more beneficial.
What is being spent by the federal government to avert deaths of despair?
Early detection and support of cases in the community could avert deaths and save health and social costs.
Early detection and support for these cases could avert deaths and save considerable health and social costs.
