Perioperative management of multidrug-resistant-colonized cardiac surgery patients: are we overestimating the risk?

Key Points

• A significant finding is an apparent overestimation of risk in patients with multidrug-resistant colonization undergoing cardiac surgery.
• The main metric highlighted is that a considerable proportion of these patients do not develop severe complications.
• Observational analysis focused on perioperative management of multidrug-resistant colonized patients during cardiac surgery.
• This calls for a reevaluation of the risk protocols to avoid unnecessary resource allocation and intervention.