Epinephrine for Croup
Pediatric dosing has a median of 3 mg across 29 published protocols, with the middle half between 1 and 5.
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.
Pediatricmg
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 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
- NEB 100%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=29 protocols from 26 named agencies / 14 states, updated Oct 2026
PediatricmL
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Values in mL. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a medication five times still gets one vote.
Routes
- NEB 100%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=11 protocols from 8 named agencies / 8 states, updated Oct 2026
Adultmg
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Values in mg. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a medication five times still gets one vote.
Routes
- NEB 100%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=5 protocols from 4 named agencies / 3 states, updated Oct 2026
Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
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
- NEB 100%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=5 protocols from 5 named agencies / 4 states, updated Oct 2026
Pediatric, weight-basedmL/kg
| min | p25 | median | p75 | max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 |
Values in mL/kg. One value per source (that source's median), so a document listing a medication five times still gets one vote.
Routes
- NEB 100%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=5 protocols from 4 named agencies / 2 states, updated Oct 2026
AdultmL
Below 5 sources, so no distribution is published for this group — only the counts above.
Routes
- NEB 100%
United States EMS Protocol Census, n=3 protocols from 2 named agencies / 2 states, updated Oct 2026
Named agencies with a page41
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
- Ambulance Victoria
- Brownsville Rural Fire District, Halsey-Shedd Fire Protection District, Jefferson Fire District, Lebanon Fire District, Scio Fire District & Sweet Home Fire & Ambulance District
- Cabarrus County EMS
- Campbell County Emergency Medical Service
- Chelan/Douglas/Okanogan/Grant County
- Clark County EMS (Washington)
- Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Department of Emergency Services
- Cowlitz County EMS Council
- Dallas Fire-Rescue
- Daviess County EMS
- East Baton Rouge Parish Department of Emergency Medical Services
- El Campo Emergency Medical Service
- Evansville Fire Department
- FirstHealth of the Carolinas
- Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue
- Franklin County Emergency Medical Services
- Giles County EMS
- Grant County
- Haywood County EMS System
- Houston Fire Department
- Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency
- Lane County Medical Control Board
- Levy County Department of Public Safety
- Louisville Metro EMS
- Mauston Area Ambulance
- Montgomery County Hospital District
- National Emergency Medical Services
- New Jersey Department of Health
- New Mexico EMS Bureau
- Northwest Arkansas Regional EMS
- Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services
- Region One Metropolitan Ambulance Council (MAC)
- REMSA
- County of Riverside EMS Agency
- Salem Fire Department
- Tennessee Emergency Medical Services
- Thurston County Medic One
- UTSW/Parkland BioTel EMS System
- Virgin Islands Fire & Emergency Medical Services
- Wilson County Emergency Management Agency