Enteral Nutrition (EN)
By definition, the term enteral means "within or by the way of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract." As described above, enteral is defined as provision of nutrition support through the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract or by accessing the gut. It also refers to feeding into the GI tract through a feeding tube. Enteral nutrition (EN) call be administration via transoral (oral ingestion of food), transnasal (administration of liquid feeds through feeding tube through the nose), or percutaneous transgastric routes (through stomach), or by a tube into the small intestine called a ejunostomy or percutaileous endoscopic ejunostoniy (PEJ). Hence, enteral nutrition is often called tube feeding,