Indication

Morphine for Mild to moderate pain

116 sources94 named agencies40 statesas of 2026-10-31

Pediatric weight-based dosing has a median of 0.1 mg/kg across 96 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.1 and 0.1.

116sources

94named agencies

40states

249entries

92named here

Includes 3 agencies outside the US.

Doses far off from what other protocols give are likely misreads, so they are left out until checked. How that works.

Pediatric, weight-basedmg/kg

96sources

83named agencies

37states

111entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.05	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.15

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/IM 35%
IV/IO 21%
IV/IM 15%
IV 13%
IM 10%
IV/IO/IM/SQ 3%
IM/SQ 1%
IV/IM/SQ 1%
IV/SQ 1%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=96 protocols from 83 named agencies / 37 states, updated Oct 2026

Adultmg

85sources

71named agencies

32states

98entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
1	2	2	4	6

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/IM 35%
IV 20%
IV/IM 15%
IV/IO 14%
IM 8%
IV/IO/IM/SQ 2%
IO 1%
IV/IM/IN 1%
IV/IM/SQ 1%
IV/SQ 1%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=85 protocols from 71 named agencies / 32 states, updated Oct 2026

Adult, weight-basedmg/kg

34sources

26named agencies

17states

38entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.05	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.15

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/IM 45%
IV/IO 26%
IV 11%
IV/IM 11%
IM 8%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=34 protocols from 26 named agencies / 17 states, updated Oct 2026

Pediatricmg

2sources

2named agencies

2states

2entries

0kept as written

Below 5 sources, so no distribution is published for this group — only the counts above.

Routes

IM 50%
IV 50%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=2 protocols from 2 named agencies / 2 states, updated Oct 2026

Named agencies with a page92

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