A worldwide survey on perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis for heart transplantation: From theory to clinical practice.

Background: The aim of our survey was to analyze the current attitudes toward antimicrobial prophylaxis in heart transplanting centers worldwide.

Methods: The survey was composed of a total of 50 questions, it consisted of four different sections as follows. The first section collected physicians' personal data and centers' general characteristics, second assessed the approach to patients colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), while the third consisted of the infection risk related to cardiovascular devices, and antimicrobial treatment data, the last focused on donor's colonization.