About The Study: Among critically ill children being enterally fed, not assessing gastric residual volume routinely was noninferior to regular assessments every 6 hours and significantly increased nutritional achievement at 72 hours.
Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Lyvonne N. Tume, PhD, email Lyvonne.tume@edgehill.ac.uk and l.n.tume@ljmu.ac.uk .
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