Micromassage Compression Leggings Associated with Physical Exercise: Pilot Study and Example of Evaluation of the Clinical and Instrumental Effectiveness of Conservative Treatment in Lipedema.

We evaluated the effect of compression leggings with micromassage in association with physical activity on women with lipedema, not previously treated and without recent changes in body weight. The treatment resulted in an improvement in all subjective parameters, in spontaneous and evoked pain, in the volume of the limbs, in the absence of significant changes in body weight, and regardless of the duration of use, age, years of illness, the clinical stage, and body mass index (BMI). Evoked pain did not improve in areas affected by untreated lipedema; foot circumferences did not increase.

Staffing Models: Making Increased Acuity Safe in the Pediatric ICU.

Traditional staffing models rely on the productivity metric of hours per patient day, lacking the ability to adequately capture the nursing workload. Acuity-based staffing considers the patient population's acuity for appropriate nursing workload. Using process improvement methodology, a pediatric ICU transitioned to an acuity-based staffing model resulting in an 11.

Females have lower salivary flow than males, before and after radiation therapy for head/neck cancer.

Objective: To compare salivary flow rates between females and males, before and after radiation therapy (RT) for head and neck cancer (HNC).

Methods: Prospective observational multicenter cohort study (OraRad). Stimulated whole salivary flow was measured before RT and at 6 and 18 months after RT.