Indication

Morphine for Severe pain

27 sources21 named agencies17 statesas of 2026-10-31

Pediatric weight-based dosing has a median of 0.1 mg/kg across 21 published protocols, with the middle half between 0.1 and 0.1.

27sources

21named agencies

17states

62entries

21named here

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

21sources

17named agencies

16states

26entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.05	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1

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 31%
IV/IO 19%
IV 15%
IM 12%
IM/SQ 4%
IV/IM 4%
IV/IM/SQ 4%
IV/IO/IM/IN 4%
IV/IO/IM/NEB 4%
IV/IO/IM/SQ 4%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=21 protocols from 17 named agencies / 16 states, updated Oct 2026

Adultmg

15sources

12named agencies

11states

19entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
2	2	2	3.75	4

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 26%
IM 21%
IV 21%
IV/IO 16%
IV/IM/SQ 5%
IV/IO/IM/IN 5%
IV/IO/IM/NEB 5%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=15 protocols from 12 named agencies / 11 states, updated Oct 2026

Adult, weight-basedmg/kg

10sources

8named agencies

8states

12entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1

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 42%
IV/IO 33%
IM/SQ 8%
IV/IM 8%
IV/IO/IM/SQ 8%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=10 protocols from 8 named agencies / 8 states, updated Oct 2026

Pediatricmg

4sources

4named agencies

4states

5entries

0kept as written

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

Routes

IM 40%
IV 20%
IV/IM 20%
IV/IM/SQ 20%

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

Named agencies with a page21

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