Indication

Fentanyl for Procedural sedation

1,335 under review39 sources33 named agencies15 statesas of 2026-09-20

Pediatric weight-based dosing has a median of 0.001 mg/kg across 28 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.001 and 0.001.

39sources

33named agencies

15states

75entries

30named here

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

Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg

28sources

24named agencies

13states

31entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.0005	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.002

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/IM/IN 29%
IV 23%
IV/IM/IN 19%
IV/IO 19%
IO 3%
IV/IO/IM 3%
IV/IO/IN 3%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=28 protocols from 24 named agencies / 13 states, updated Sep 2026

Adultmg

27sources

22named agencies

13states

29entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.025	0.0313	0.05	0.05	0.1

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

Routes

IV/IO 24%
IV/IO/IM/IN 24%
IV 21%
IV/IM/IN 17%
IV/IO/IN 7%
IN 3%
IV/IO/IM 3%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=27 protocols from 22 named agencies / 13 states, updated Sep 2026

Adult, weight-basedmg/kg

14sources

13named agencies

7states

14entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.0005	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.002

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 36%
IV/IO/IM/IN 29%
IV 21%
IV/IM/IN 14%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=14 protocols from 13 named agencies / 7 states, updated Sep 2026

Pediatricmg

1sources

1named agencies

1states

1entries

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=1 protocols from 1 named agencies / 1 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.