Dopamine for Bradycardia
Adult weight-based dosing has a median of 0.005 mg/kg across 51 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.002 and 0.005.
Includes 1 agency outside the US.
Doses far off from what other protocols give are likely misreads, so they are left out until checked. How that works.
Adult, weight-basedmg/kg
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.005 | 0.005 | 0.01 |
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 56%
- IV 44%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=51 protocols from 42 named agencies / 27 states, updated Oct 2026
Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.005 | 0.005 |
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 54%
- IV 46%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=13 protocols from 12 named agencies / 10 states, updated Oct 2026
Named agencies with a page42
Agencies whose protocols are a public record are named here. Their own doses are on their own pages; this list carries no values.
- Ada County-City Emergency Services System
- Adams, Benton, Franklin, Yakima Counties
- Alabama Department of Public Health Office of Emergency Medical Services
- Benbrook Fire Department
- Chaves County EMS
- Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Department of Emergency Services
- Coos County Emergency Medical Services
- Fern Creek Fire and Emergency Medical Services
- Franklin County Emergency Medical Services
- Haywood County EMS System
- Idaho EMS Physician Commission
- Illinois Region VIII Emergency Medical Services
- Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services
- La Porte County Emergency Medical Service
- Levy County Department of Public Safety
- Lincoln County EMS
- Manatee County Emergency Medical Services
- Marion County
- Massachusetts Office of Emergency Medical Services
- Ministry of Health, Emergency Health Regulatory and Accountability Branch
- Nash County Emergency Medical Services
- Nebraska Medicine Division of Prehospital and Emergency Medical Services
- Nevada EMS Program
- New Mexico EMS Bureau
- North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services (NC OEMS)
- Northeastern Montana Stat Air Ambulance Cooperative
- Osage Ambulance District
- Pend Oreille County Emergency Medical Services
- Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services
- Pettis County Ambulance District
- Platte Valley Ambulance Service
- Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committee of New York City
- Rhode Island Department of Health – Center for Emergency Medical Services
- Routt County EMS
- Rowan County Emergency Services EMS Division
- Southern Fox Valley EMS System
- State Board of Emergency Medical, Fire, and Transportation Services
- State of Nebraska
- Thurston County Medic One
- Wake County EMS System
- Washington County Emergency Medical Services
- Wilson County Emergency Management Agency