Please check our “Clinical Studies” page to access the full article from updated ASPEN guidelines as of April 1, 2020:
Recommendation 4: Nutrition Dose, Advancing to Goal, and Adjustments
Feeding should be initiated with low dose EN, defined as hypocaloric or trophic, advancing to full dose EN slowly over the first week of critical illness to meet energy goal of 15-20 kcal/kg actual body weight (ABW)/day (which should be 70-80% of caloric requirements) and protein goal of 1.2-2.0 gm/kg ABW/day.