Indication

Ketamine for Post-intubation sedation

50 sources42 named agencies20 statesas of 2026-10-31

Adult weight-based dosing has a median of 1 mg/kg across 43 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.875 and 1.5.

50sources

42named agencies

20states

75entries

42named 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

43sources

35named agencies

18states

45entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.4	0.875	1	1.5	3

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 71%
IV 20%
IV/IO/IM 4%
IM 2%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=43 protocols from 35 named agencies / 18 states, updated Oct 2026

Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg

23sources

18named agencies

13states

24entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.5	0.5	1	1	3

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 75%
IV 21%
IV/IO/IM 4%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=23 protocols from 18 named agencies / 13 states, updated Oct 2026

Adultmg

5sources

5named agencies

3states

5entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
100	100	100	150	200

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

Routes

IV/IO 60%
IV 40%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=5 protocols from 5 named agencies / 3 states, updated Oct 2026

Adult, weight-basedmL/kg

1sources

1named agencies

1states

1entries

0kept as written

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 page42

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