Demerol is passe?? Can anyone fill me in?

[steel magnolia]

Hi, not a pain specialist, but I have been hearing demerol being criticized as ineffective for pain relief a lot lately. Where is this research coming from? Is there a resource anyone can recomened for learning more about this?

[mew808]

Also Demerol is very hard on surounding tissues both IM and IV. Thank god we are finally seeing less of this.