This document discusses enteral nutrition in critically ill patients. It provides rationale for using enteral nutrition rather than parenteral nutrition, including that enteral nutrition favors intestinal villous trophicity, promotes gut motility, reduces bacterial translocation from the gut, and is less costly. It discusses various access techniques for enteral nutrition, including percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and contraindications. It also covers administration methods for enteral nutrition such as bolus, continuous, intermittent, and cyclic. The document references guidelines from SCCM/ASPEN from 2009 and 2013 on enteral nutrition and provides data on new randomized controlled trials and evidence from 2009 to 2013 on various topics related to enteral and parenteral nutrition.