Indication

Fentanyl for RSI induction

27 sources19 named agencies16 statesas of 2026-10-31

Adult weight-based dosing has a median of 0.001 mg/kg across 20 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.001 and 0.002.

27sources

19named agencies

16states

45entries

19named here

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

20sources

15named agencies

15states

21entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.0005	0.001	0.001	0.002	0.003

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

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=20 protocols from 15 named agencies / 15 states, updated Oct 2026

15sources

10named agencies

10states

16entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.0005	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.002

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

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=15 protocols from 10 named agencies / 10 states, updated Oct 2026

7sources

4named agencies

4states

8entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.025	0.0375	0.05	0.1	0.1

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

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=7 protocols from 4 named agencies / 4 states, updated Oct 2026

Named agencies with a page19

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