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Hegazi and Wischmeyer Critical Care 2011,15:234 /content/15/6/234 RE VIE W Clinical review: optimizing enteral nutrition for critically ill patients - a simple data-driven formula Refaat A Hegazi and Paul E Wischmeyer * 1 2 ICU patients typically experience catabolic stress and systemic in? ammatory response; in turn, these responses alter both the morphology and function of the gastro- intestinal (GI) tract [2]. Up to 60% of ICU patients su? er GI dysfunction due to impaired GI motility, digestion, or a