Going Silent: Redesigning the Activation Process for In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Arrests.

Introduction: Reducing environmental noise has become a priority for many health systems. Following a 10-week preparation period, our health system transitioned from an overhead-activated to a silently activated in-hospital code team notification system. The goal of this initiative was to reduce environmental noise and support code team communication and function without adversely affecting response time, provider availability, or key quality metrics.

Remission of recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus with weight loss and exercise.

Purpose: To determine the rate of remission of recently diagnosed (<1 year) type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in overweight/obese individuals, with a 6-month program of weight loss and exercise.

Methods: Subjects (N = 12) were overweight/obese (body mass index = 35.8 ± 4.

Surgical management of failed endoscopic treatment of pancreatic disease.

Introduction: Endoscopic therapy of acute and chronic pancreatitis has decreased the need for operative intervention. However, a significant proportion of patients treated endoscopically require definitive surgical management for persistent symptoms.

Objective: Our aim was to determine which patients are likely to fail with endoscopic therapy, and to assess the clinical outcome of surgical management.