Indication

Diazepam for Procedural sedation

34 sources29 named agencies19 statesas of 2026-10-31

Adult dosing has a median of 5 mg across 30 published protocols, with the middle half between 2 and 5.

34sources

29named agencies

19states

58entries

29named here

Doses far off from what other protocols give are likely misreads, so they are left out until checked. How that works.

Adultmg

30sources

25named agencies

16states

37entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
2	2	5	5	5

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

Routes

IV/IO 51%
IV 22%
IV/IM 5%
IV/IO/IM 5%
IV/IO/PR 5%
IV/IO/IM/IN 3%
IV/IO/IN 3%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=30 protocols from 25 named agencies / 16 states, updated Oct 2026

Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg

14sources

12named agencies

11states

17entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.05	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3

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

Routes

IV/IO 47%
IV 24%
IV/IO/IM 18%
IV/IM 6%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=14 protocols from 12 named agencies / 11 states, updated Oct 2026

Adult, weight-basedmg/kg

3sources

3named agencies

3states

3entries

0kept as written

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

Routes

IV 100%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=3 protocols from 3 named agencies / 3 states, updated Oct 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/IM 100%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=1 protocols from 1 named agencies / 1 states, updated Oct 2026

Named agencies with a page29

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