title: Emergency medicine.
abstract: Violence against physicians, nurses, and emergency medical technicians has become an everyday part of the practice of emergency medicine. In carefully selected patients, in whom resuscitative efforts will be futile, termination of prehospital efforts may be appropriate.
authors.affiliation: University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Sklar
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D018166:Health Care Reform; D014481:United States