...sedated perhaps with drugs common for that task in the emergency room such as a sedative like Versed or with narcotics like Demerol or morphine.Those drugs last four to six hours when a colonoscopy may last 15 minutes. "So you have a minor procedure with...

...punctured lung. He almost lost his left leg. In the hospital, he was given the painkiller Demerol, and he liked how it felt. He got another taste of Demerol three years later after two auto accidents. "I was sick. I was in denial. I reasoned...

...been pressing for change since a Hampton Roads pharmacy dispensed Roxanol, a brand of morphine, instead of the prescribed Demerol after Megan's tonsillectomy. McClave said that when he learned of Brendan's death, ''there was a pain in the pit of...

...are a lot of standard practices that don't always work very well. Standard post-op pain management is an injection of Demerol into muscle tissue, which is painful and can have problems." If a patient knows ahead of time that he or she does not want...