Pharmacist E-script transcription service initiated nicotine replacement therapy uptake in pre-admission clinic: A pilot study.

Background: Pharmacist-led smoking cessation programs in pre-admission clinics (PAC) have shown to increase quit attempts and achieve abstinence by the day of surgery (DOS).

Aims: To evaluate the feasibility of Pharmacist E-script Transcription Service (PETS) initiated nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in PAC, including smoking cessation on DOS.

Methods: A single centre, pre and post-intervention pilot study conducted at an Australian public hospital PAC.

An explanatory model of factors enabling sustainability of let's talk in an adult mental health service: a participatory case study.

Background: While effective interventions have been developed to support families where a parent has a mental illness in Adult Mental Health Services, embedding and sustaining them is challenging resulting in families not having access to support. This study developed an explanatory model of influencers that had enabled sustainability of the Let's Talk intervention in one service.

Methods: A participatory case study was used to build an explanatory model of sustainability at the service using theoretical frameworks.

Ocean Acidification Affects the Phyto-Zoo Plankton Trophic Transfer Efficiency.

The critical role played by copepods in ocean ecology and biogeochemistry warrants an understanding of how these animals may respond to ocean acidification (OA). Whilst an appreciation of the potential direct effects of OA, due to elevated pCO2, on copepods is improving, little is known about the indirect impacts acting via bottom-up (food quality) effects. We assessed, for the first time, the chronic effects of direct and/or indirect exposures to elevated pCO2 on the behaviour, vital rates, chemical and biochemical stoichiometry of the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa.

Parental exposure to elevated pCO influences the reproductive success of copepods.

Substantial variations are reported for egg production and hatching rates of copepods exposed to elevated carbon dioxide concentrations (pCO). One possible explanation, as found in other marine taxa, is that prior parental exposure to elevated pCO (and/or decreased pH) affects reproductive performance. Previous studies have adopted two distinct approaches, either (1) expose male and female copepoda to the test pCO/pH scenarios, or (2) solely expose egg-laying females to the tests.

Have we been underestimating the effects of ocean acidification in zooplankton?

Understanding how copepods may respond to ocean acidification (OA) is critical for risk assessments of ocean ecology and biogeochemistry. The perception that copepods are insensitive to OA is largely based on experiments with adult females. Their apparent resilience to increased carbon dioxide (pCO2 ) concentrations has supported the view that copepods are 'winners' under OA.