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Although the study by Heyland and colleagues [ 9 ] suggests that gastrically fed patients may have a higher incidence of aspiration than those receiving post-pyloric feeding, other investigators have not replicated these findings [ 10 ] . In addition, many critically ill, injured, and postoperative patients have gastroparesis, which may limit their ability to tolerate gastric feeding [ 11 12 ] . Indeed, Mentec and colleagues [ 13 ] demonstrated that 79% of gastrically fed patients in a mixed medical/surgical ICU exhibited some degree of upper digestive intolerance caused by impaired gastric emptying.
Although enteral nutrition was initiated sooner in the gastrically fed patients, patients fed into the small intestine 'caught up' with the patients fed into the stomach and overall received a non-significantly greater mean daily caloric intake (169 calories).
In the study conducted by Boivin and Levy [ 18 ] , all gastrically fed patients received erythromycin as a promotility agent.
68, P = 0.7) between those patients fed gastrically and those who received postpyloric tube feeding.