Goal attainment scaling in post-acute outpatient brain injury rehabilitation.

Therapists continuously strive for efficiency in clinical practice. Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) is a tool that can provide both a structure for objective documentation of patient progress and a means of program evaluation. This article describes the application of GAS in a comprehensive outpatient brain injury rehabilitation program.

Long-term preservation of segmental pancreas autografts.

Clinical pancreas transplantation is logistically difficult because of uncertainty concerning how long pancreas grafts can be preserved. We studied the viability of canine segmental (tail) pancreatic autografts transplanted after 24 to 72 hours of hypothermic preservation in either modified Collins' solution or modified silica gel filtered dog plasma (SGF). All grafts stored for 24 to 48 hours functioned immediately (plasma glucose less than 140 mg/dl in recipients).