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A multicenter, randomized controlled trial comparing early nasojejunal with nasogastric nutrition in critical illness

Andrew R. Davies, Siouxzy S. Morrison, Michael J. Bailey, for the ENTERIC Study Investigators and the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Crit Care Med, 2012, 40: 2342–2348

Comment

The ENTERIC study tells us;

- that frictional small bowel tubes work, i.e. they get into the small bowel in 15 hrs in 87% of patients

- patients with mildly elevated GRV's in the early stages of critical illness don't appear to benefit from delivery of nutrition to the small bowel...


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