Can I Just Reflux and Grow? Feeding Critically Ill Children Receiving Respiratory Support*

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“…Next, review the report on postpyloric feeding tube placement under ultrasound guidance (17, 18). Look at the 2018−2019, four-center European PICU report of feeding practices and energy balance in 190 children receiving noninvasive respiratory support (19, 20). Last, search out two articles that address mechanistic aspects of adequacy of enteral nutrition in critically ill patients receiving IMV support: one brief report about anticholinergic drug burden (21), and the other a Concise Clinical Science Review about the Zonulin pathway in gastrointestinal dysfunction (22).…”