What recommendations can you make to the patient's critical care team to help improve tolerance to the enteral feeding?
What will be an ideal response?
• Initiate EN early after admission to downregulate stress response and prevent bacterial translocation.
• Infuse EN distally in the GI tract (recommended NJ route)
• Choose an enteral formula that contains small peptides and MCT or a nearly fat-free elemental formula
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