Indication

Sodium Bicarbonate for Cardiac arrest

70 sources59 named agencies31 statesas of 2026-10-31

Pediatric weight-based dosing has a median of 1 mEq/kg across 57 published protocols, with the middle half between 1 and 1.

70sources

59named agencies

31states

126entries

58named here

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.

Pediatric, weight-basedmEq/kg

57sources

50named agencies

28states

58entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.5	1	1	1	1

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

Routes

IV/IO 85%
IV 16%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=57 protocols from 50 named agencies / 28 states, updated Oct 2026

Adult, weight-basedmEq/kg

41sources

36named agencies

22states

43entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
0.5	1	1	1	1

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

Routes

IV/IO 74%
IV 26%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=41 protocols from 36 named agencies / 22 states, updated Oct 2026

AdultmEq

23sources

17named agencies

14states

23entries

0kept as written

min	p25	median	p75	max
50	50	50	50	100

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

Routes

IV/IO 96%
IV 4%

United States EMS Protocol Census, n=23 protocols from 17 named agencies / 14 states, updated Oct 2026

AdultmL

2sources

2named agencies

2states

2entries

0kept as written

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

Routes

IV/IO 100%

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

Named agencies with a page58

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