Indication

Morphine for Mild to moderate pain

1,335 under review95 sources86 named agencies36 statesas of 2026-09-20

Pediatric weight-based dosing has a median of 0.1 mg/kg across 74 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.1 and 0.1.

95sources

86named agencies

36states

209entries

82named 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

74sources

70named agencies

33states

89entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.05	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.15

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 33%
IV 19%
IV/IO 17%
IV/IM 16%
IM 11%
IO 1%
IO/IM 1%
IV/IO/IM/IN 1%
IV/SQ 1%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=74 protocols from 70 named agencies / 33 states, updated Sep 2026

Adultmg

68sources

62named agencies

30states

82entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
1	2	2	4	5

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/IM 32%
IV 26%
IV/IM 16%
IM 11%
IV/IO 10%
IO/IM 1%
IV/IM/SQ 1%
IV/IO/IM/IN 1%
IV/SQ 1%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=68 protocols from 62 named agencies / 30 states, updated Sep 2026

Adult, weight-basedmg/kg

30sources

27named agencies

16states

36entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.05	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.15

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 44%
IV/IO 22%
IV 14%
IM 11%
IV/IM 6%
IO 3%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=30 protocols from 27 named agencies / 16 states, updated Sep 2026

Pediatricmg

2sources

2named agencies

2states

2entries

2kept as written

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

Routes

IM 50%
IV/IO/IM 50%

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.