Continuing Enteral Nutrition in Prone Ventilation

Enteral nutrition (EN) is safe and essential to overall patient outcomes especially for the critically ill therefore should be continued during ventilation in prone position as these patients by default tend most ill. The incidence of vomiting, increased gastric residual volume (GRV) ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) are not when compared feeding supine position. It important keep bed inverse Trendelenburg 30 degrees while continuing enteral feed Prokinetics indicated with high GRV. Naso-gastric (NG) inferior post pyloric feeding.