US EMS Protocol Census
Indication

Etomidate for Procedural sedation

1,335 under review26 sources21 named agencies12 statesas of 2026-09-20

Adult weight-based dosing has a median of 0.15 mg/kg across 24 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.1 and 0.1625.

26sources
21named agencies
12states
50entries
20named here

1,335 rows are under review across the census and excluded from every number on this page. How that works.

Adult, weight-basedmg/kg

24sources
19named agencies
12states
27entries
0kept as written
minp25medianp75max
0.10.10.150.16250.3

Values in mg/kg. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a drug five times still gets one vote.

Routes

  • IV/IO 74%
  • IV 26%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=24 protocols from 19 named agencies / 12 states, updated Sep 2026

Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg

16sources
14named agencies
9states
20entries
0kept as written
minp25medianp75max
0.10.10.150.20.3

Values in mg/kg. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a drug five times still gets one vote.

Routes

  • IV/IO 95%
  • IV 5%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=16 protocols from 14 named agencies / 9 states, updated Sep 2026

Adultmg

2sources
2named agencies
2states
3entries
0kept as written

Below 5 sources, so no distribution is published for this group — only the counts above.

Routes

  • IV/IO 100%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=2 protocols from 2 named agencies / 2 states, updated Sep 2026

Named agencies

Agencies whose protocols are a public record are named here. Their own doses are on their own pages; this list carries no values.