Enteral nutrition can provides prophylaxis against stress ulcer bleeding in critically ill patients and there may be no need to use acid suppressing drugs for stress ulcer bleeding prophylaxis in these patients. Half of the patients on enteral nutrition will not receive any acid suppressing drugs while other half receives it. They will be followed for gastrointestinal bleeding.
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GI bleeding
Timeframe: Subjects will be followed from date of randomization until discharge from the ICU or cessation of enteral nutrition up to four weeks