No significant differences were seen in percentage of calories (71.62% vs 71.83%; P = .09) and proteins
(71.85% vs 68.89%; P = .2) delivered on day 3 between patients receiving EN within 6 hours and after 6 hours
of admission. Similar number of patients achieved target calories (66.3% vs 67.6%; P = .8) and target proteins
(66.9% vs 62.7%; P = .5) on day 3 in both groups. There were no significant differences between the groups for
ICU LOS (11.41 days vs 11.72 days; P = .7) and hospital LOS (20.7 days vs 17.96 days; P =.1).Atotalof77.1%
pa ti e n ts we r e d i sc h a rg e d i n th e g r ou p i n wh om EN w as i n i ti a te d wi th i n 6 h ou r s a nd 6 7. 6 % pa ti e nt s we re
di s ch ar ge d i n th e gr ou p wh e re E N wa s i ni ti a te d af t e r 6 h ou r s ( P = . 07 ). T he m or t al i ty r a te wa s 22 . 9%
and 32. 4%, res pectiv ely ( P = .07 ), in these groups . Overal l inc idence of EN inter rupti on was 20 .13 % withou t
significant difference between the 2 groups (b 6hours,16.2%; N 6 hours, 24.7%; P =.087).