Demerol is passe?? Can anyone fill me in?

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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?

Specializes in Med/Surg, Oncology, Home health 5.

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

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