Gastrointestinal Complications in Critically Ill Patients With and Without COVID-19

2] Whether the high incidence of gastrointestinal complications is a manifestation of critical illness in general or is specific to COVID-19 remains unclear. We compared the incidence of gastrointestinal complications of critically ill patients with COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) vs comparably ill patients with non-COVID-19 ARDS using propensity score analysis.