Drug

Fentanyl in US EMS protocols

1,335 under review181 sources159 named agencies42 statesas of 2026-09-20

181 published protocols carry Fentanyl across 20 indications, from 159 named agencies in 42 states.

181protocols

159named agencies

42states

20indications

780dose entries

99% of 780machine-parsed

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

Indications20

Only groups with at least 5 sources publish a distribution; thinner groups show their count alone.

Indication	Population	Sources	Median	Middle half	Unit
ACS / chest pain	Adult	21	0.025	0.025–0.05	mg
ACS / chest pain	Adult, weight-based	17	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
ACS / chest pain	Pediatric, weight-based	7	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
Other	Adult	21	0.0375	0.025–0.05	mg
Other	Adult, weight-based	20	0.001	0.0009–0.001	mg/kg
Other	Pediatric, weight-based	18	0.001	0.001–0.0012	mg/kg
Mild to moderate pain	Adult	77	0.05	0.025–0.05	mg
Mild to moderate pain	Adult, weight-based	71	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
Mild to moderate pain	Pediatric, weight-based	116	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
Severe pain	Adult	15	0.05	0.025–0.05	mg
Severe pain	Adult, weight-based	21	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
Severe pain	Pediatric, weight-based	29	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
Post-intubation sedation	Adult	17	0.05	0.05–0.1	mg
Post-intubation sedation	Adult, weight-based	9	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
Post-intubation sedation	Pediatric, weight-based	19	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
Procedural sedation	Adult	27	0.05	0.0313–0.05	mg
Procedural sedation	Adult, weight-based	14	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
Procedural sedation	Pediatric, weight-based	28	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg
RSI induction	Adult, weight-based	15	0.001	0.001–0.0015	mg/kg
RSI induction	Pediatric, weight-based	14	0.001	0.001–0.001	mg/kg

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

7 more agencies are counted but have too little published detail for a page yet.