Diphenhydramine for Procedural sedation
Pediatric weight-based dosing has a median of 1 mg/kg across 7 published protocols, with the middle half between 1 and 1.
Doses far off from what other protocols give are likely misreads, so they are left out until checked. How that works.
Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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/IM 57%
- IV/IO/IM 43%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=7 protocols from 7 named agencies / 5 states, updated Oct 2026
Adultmg
Below 5 sources, so no distribution is published for this group — only the counts above.
Routes
- IV/IO/IM 75%
- IV/IM 25%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=4 protocols from 4 named agencies / 4 states, updated Oct 2026
Named agencies with a page7
Agencies whose protocols are a public record are named here. Their own doses are on their own pages; this list carries no values.