NEJM Journal Watch - General Medicine

Adults hospitalized for RSV had an 18-fold increased incidence of cardiovascular events during the first 28 days after admission.

Commonly implicated medications did not raise risk for biopsy-proven microscopic colitis in an observational study.

Lifestyle modifications are not enough to improve the efficacy of antiarrhythmic drugs; catheter ablation is still superior.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often describe their symptoms differently than clinicians would.

The FDA has approved this drug for treating patients with heart failure and preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction.

A meta-analysis suggests that H. pylori eradication lowers gastric cancer incidence by about 40%.

Point-of-care ultrasound early in cardiac arrest detected previously unidentified shockable rhythms, but outcomes didn't improve.

Injurious falls were more common in both younger and older adults with dizziness who took this medication.

Patients fared worse after this cost-savings switch.

Patients admitted with respiratory failure, those with organ failure, and those receiving enteral nutrition were most likely to be reintubated. Reintubation increased mortality risk.