Types of interventions
Trials comparing early enteral nutritional support (with in 24 hours of injury)
versus late enteral nutritional support (greater than 25 hours). In this instance , enteral nutrition (EN)wasde fined as the delivery of a liquid nutritional formula, which contains macro-and micronutrients such as carbohydrates, fat, prote in, vitamins,
mineral and trace elements that passes any part of the dige stive
tract, regardl ess of the method of deliver (e.g. nasogastric, naso-jejunal ,
naso-enteric, or o-gastr ic, PEG or jejunal feeding tubes).
Studies examining combine denteral and or alsupple mentation
f e e ding re gime s we re al so incl ude d