Hi
Is this sentence correct?
As computers become more advanced, it is possible to carry out more complex medical procedures that had saved lives.
How about this one?
As computers become more advanced, it is possible to carry out more complex medical procedures that saved lives.
Thank you
As computers become more advanced, it is possible to carry out more complex medical procedures that save lives. Yes
As computers become more advanced, it is possible to carry out more complex medical procedures that have saved lives. Yes
Your sentences both use past tenses (simple and perfect). Mine use present tenses (simple and perfect). You need a present tense here.
N.2 sounds better in terms of tenses. I would use the past simple, but I would replace that with which in that it sounds like a piece of scientific writing.
Alternatively I'd write
As computers become more advanced, it is possible to carry out more complex medical life-saving procedures.
In my opinion, the following three are possible:
As computers become more advanced, it is possible to carry out more complex medical procedures which save lives.
As computers have become more advanced, it has been possible to carry out more complex medical procedures which have saved lives.
As computers became more advanced, it was possible to carry out more complex medical procedures which saved lives.