FASTReplay: Critical Care Smackdown: The Ultimate Showdown of Critical Care Medications - featuring Will Heuser

We’re continuing our FAST Replay series, bringing you full sessions recorded live from past FAST conferences as we build toward FAST26: Austin. This episode is a talk from FAST25: Lexington that covers a lot of ground, but it all comes back to one question: Why are we doing what we’re doing?

From cardiac arrest to seizures to traumatic arrest, this session challenges some of the most common practices in EMS:

•  Amiodarone vs. lidocaine 
•  How we’re actually dosing benzodiazepines 
•  When ketamine makes more sense 
•  And whether epinephrine is helping at all in traumatic cardiac arrest 

This isn’t about memorizing protocols. It’s about understanding the reasoning behind them and being willing to question them when the evidence doesn’t hold up. If you’ve ever felt like something didn’t quite add up in your protocols… this one will hit.

This is what FAST sounds like. Real conversations. Real challenges. Live from the room.

FAST26 is coming to Austin this year, co-located with EMS World Live, bringing together the FAST experience with a broader EMS community, while keeping what makes FAST what it is.

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FAST26: Austin will be in Austin, Texas, from May 27 - 29, 2026.
Tickets are available as FAST26: Austin only, EMS World Live only, or a combination ticket that allows you to attend both events.