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To all those health professionals who have put themselves in harm’s way to care for patients in the front lines of the COVID‐19 pandemic.

Edited by

IAN PEATE, OBE, FRCN

Senior Lecturer

University of Roehampton

London, UK

SUZANNE EVANS, PhD

Associate Professor

University of Newcastle Australia

Callaghan, Australia

LISA CLEGG, PhD, MHLTHSC, BHLTHSC

Senior Lecturer

Charles Sturt University

Australia

This edition first published 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Peate, Ian, editor. | Evans, Suzanne, editor. | Clegg, Lisa, editor.

Title: Fundamentals of pharmacology for paramedics / edited by Ian Peate, Suzanne Evans, Lisa Clegg.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022000521 (print) | LCCN 2022000522 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119724285 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119724315 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119724322 (epub)

Subjects: MESH: Pharmacology–methods | Emergency Medical Technicians

Classification: LCC RM300 (print) | LCC RM300 (ebook) | NLM QV 704 | DDC 615.1–dc23/eng/20220119