US EMS Protocol Census
Indication

Lidocaine for Cardiac arrest

1,335 under review37 sources33 named agencies21 statesas of 2026-09-20

Adult weight-based dosing has a median of 1 mg/kg across 34 published protocols, with the middle half between 1 and 1.5.

37sources
33named agencies
21states
60entries
32named 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

34sources
30named agencies
19states
34entries
0kept as written
minp25medianp75max
0.75111.51.5

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 79%
  • IV 21%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=34 protocols from 30 named agencies / 19 states, updated Sep 2026

Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg

24sources
20named agencies
14states
24entries
0kept as written
minp25medianp75max
11111.5

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 83%
  • IV 17%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=24 protocols from 20 named agencies / 14 states, updated Sep 2026

Adultmg

2sources
2named agencies
2states
2entries
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.