Change in tube feeding practice improves nutrition for ICU patients, audit finds

(American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.)) While the importance of enteral nutrition, or feeding patients through a tube, in an intensive care unit is well understood, underfeeding is still common. A practice of a certain amount of feeding per hour can be interrupted by tests, procedures, or emergencies. Changing to a volume-based system, which calls for a certain nutrition volume per day, could reduce underfeeding.