Dopamine for Hypotension / shock
Adult weight-based dosing has a median of 0.005 mg/kg across 57 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 62%
- IV 38%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=57 protocols from 45 named agencies / 27 states, updated Oct 2026
Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.001 | 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 56%
- IV 44%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=31 protocols from 25 named agencies / 18 states, updated Oct 2026
Adultmg
Below 5 sources, so no distribution is published for this group — only the counts above.
Routes
- IV 100%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=1 protocols from 1 named agencies / 1 states, updated Oct 2026
Named agencies with a page48
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
- Arizona Department of Health Services
- BC Emergency Health Services
- Benbrook Fire Department
- Bonner County Emergency Medical Services
- Brunswick County EMS
- Campbell County Emergency Medical Service
- Central California Emergency Medical Services
- Chelan/Douglas/Okanogan/Grant County
- Coos County Emergency Medical Services
- Fern Creek Fire and Emergency Medical Services
- Franklin County Emergency Medical Services
- Grant County
- Greater Elgin Area EMS System
- Haywood County EMS System
- Idaho EMS Physician Commission
- Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services
- La Porte County Emergency Medical Service
- Lake County Emergency Medical System
- Lake Emergency Medical System
- Lane County Medical Control Board
- Laurens County Emergency Medical Services
- Levy County Department of Public Safety
- Manatee County Emergency Medical Services
- Massachusetts Office of Emergency Medical Services
- Nash County Emergency Medical Services
- Nebraska Medicine Division of Prehospital and Emergency Medical Services
- Northeastern Montana Stat Air Ambulance Cooperative
- Old Dominion EMS Alliance, Inc.
- Pend Oreille County Emergency Medical Services
- Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services
- Pettis County Ambulance District
- Platte Valley Ambulance Service
- Rappahannock EMS Council
- Region 4 EMS
- Region One Metropolitan Ambulance Council
- Rhode Island Department of Health – Center for Emergency Medical Services
- County of Riverside EMS Agency
- Routt County EMS
- Southern Fox Valley EMS System
- State Board of Emergency Medical, Fire, and Transportation Services
- State of Nebraska
- Thurston County Medic One
- Tri County Emergency Medical Services, Inc.
- Vermont Department of Health
- Wake County EMS System
- Washington County Emergency Medical Services
- Wilson County Emergency Management Agency