title: Contributions of pediatrics in identification of disaster victims.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  All kinds of disasters have taken place in the world in last years. The challenge of dealing with disasters is not only the concern of disaster planners, but also of health professionals and the health system as a whole, paediatricians and forensic pathologists included.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the difficulties of application of both the positive and the presumptive criteria in the disaster identification of minor's deaths and the possible collaboration between both specialties.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In a disaster with minor's deaths, the difficulties in the application of disaster identification items affect mainly to minors who are not adolescents. Although the role of pediatrics and paediatricians is the healthcare of minors, it is advisable to have the pediatrician's collaboration in the retrieval and gathering of the medical antemortem data.
authors.forename: Eneko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barberia
authors.forename: Josep
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arimany
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hospital
authors.forename: Juan Francisco
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Ortigosa
authors.forename: Narcis
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bardalet
authors.forename: Claudina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vidal
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Aizpun
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D054597:Disaster Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States