Indication

Ketamine for Procedural sedation

1,335 under review60 sources53 named agencies21 statesas of 2026-09-20

Adult weight-based dosing has a median of 1 mg/kg across 51 published protocols, with the middle half between 1 and 1.5.

60sources

53named agencies

21states

120entries

48named 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

51sources

44named agencies

20states

57entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.5	1	1	1.5	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 53%
IV 21%
IM 11%
IV/IO/IM 5%
IN 4%
IV/IN 4%
IM/IN 2%
IV/IO/IN 2%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=51 protocols from 44 named agencies / 20 states, updated Sep 2026

Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg

41sources

37named agencies

15states

48entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.5	1	1.5	1.5	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 50%
IV 23%
IM 10%
IM/IN 4%
IN 4%
IV/IN 4%
IV/IO/IM 2%
IV/IO/IN 2%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=41 protocols from 37 named agencies / 15 states, updated Sep 2026

Adultmg

14sources

13named agencies

8states

14entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
50	81.25	100	175	300

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

Routes

IM 43%
IV 21%
IV/IO 21%
IM/IN 7%
IN 7%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=14 protocols from 13 named agencies / 8 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

IM 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.