Semen Semenovich Zimnitsky Scientific School: Pulmonology and Cardiology

ESPEN Guidelines on Enteral Nutrition: Cardiology and pulmonology.

These guidelines are intended to give evidence-based recommendations for the use of enteral nutrition (EN) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They were developed by an interdisciplinary expert group in accordance with officially accepted standards and are based on all relevant publications since 1985. They have been discussed and accep...

Cardiology in Brazilian scientific journals: an overview.

Cardiology has been and is a very significant fraction of the Brazilian contribution to science. In older days, the most significant part of this work was directed to foreign periodicals, but the quasi-simultaneous emergence of SciELO and PUBMED has ordained a redirection of much of this work to Brazilian periodicals. We here survey some of this more recent contribution for the benefit of reade...

Profile and scientific production of CNPq researchers in cardiology.

BACKGROUND Systematic assessments of the scientific production can optimize resource allocation and increase research productivity in Brazil. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the profile and scientific production of researchers in the field of Cardiology who have fellowship in Medicine provided by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. METHODS The ...

Pulmonology: horses and zebras.

Psephology and pulmonology.

Psephology is the ‘‘the statistical study of elections and trends in voting’’ as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (www.oed.com). These trends show that in May 2014, 43% of EU voters turned out to ‘‘act, react, and impact’’ [1]. Although there was an improvement compared with previous turnouts, it seems Pericles’ warning has still not been heeded by the majority of EU voters. By contrast...