The Improving Surgical Outcomes Group (ISOG) is an independent medical group comprising surgeons, anaesthetists, critical care consultants and others involved in operative management and care. The group is concerned with improving patient outcomes and modernising care for patients undergoing major surgery. In June 2005 the Group produced a report entitled 'Modernising Care for Patients Undergoing Major Surgery'. It highlights that 20,000 patients die every year in the NHS following sugery. The report also includes recommendations for how surgical care should be modernised, including the introduction of haemodynamic optimisation. Professor Monty Mythen, of ISOG and Portex Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University College London has said, "This is just the sort of technique that we are trying to encourage hospitals across the UK to adopt."

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ISOG has now published a follow up document.

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