<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-00152016000100110</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Organización e identificación de víctimas de catástrofes]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Araya Vargas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jimena]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,jllana_1692@hotmail.com  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>33</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>110</fpage>
<lpage>115</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152016000100110&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152016000100110&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152016000100110&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Una catástrofe es un evento súbito que deja como saldo gran número de heridos y muertos. La INTERPOL es la entidad judicial encargada del tema, el cual publicó una guía que abarca organización y metodología en la identificación de víctimas, independientemente de la magnitud u origen del desastre. También enfatiza la importancia de contar con equipo capacitado en esta área de manera permanente, de manera tal que pueda facilitar un proceso rápido y eficaz, que permita llegar a la identificación de los cadáveres. Sin embargo, por las características de estos eventos, en algunas ocasiones no es posible. Esto depende en gran medida del estado de los cadáveres, que se ven afectados por las condiciones a las que se encuentran expuestos como el clima, almacenamiento, así como lapso entre la localización y análisis de la muestra. Entre los métodos más empleados para identificación de víctimas se encuentran el análisis de ADN, huellas digitales y rasgos odontológicos. Por otro lado, cada vez es más la facilidad que brindan las imágenes radiológicas en este proceso. Aunque la mayoría de esfuerzos están destinados en la atención de sobrevivientes, no se puede olvidar la importancia que tiene la identificación de las víctimas en las catástrofes, principalmente por el impacto tanto a nivel legal; así como humanitario, con la finalidad de devolver los cuerpos a sus familias o repatriados.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: A disaster is a sudden event that causes great number of injuries and deaths. INTERPOL is the responsable judicial body of the subject, which published a guide that covers the organization and methodology in identifying victims, regardless of the size or origin of the disaster. Also emphasizes the importance of having a skilled team in this area permanently, so that it can provide a quick and efficient process, allowing the identificación of the bodies. However, cause the nature of these events, sometimes it&#8217;s not posible. This depends largely on the state of the bodies, whicha are affected by the conditions they are exposed as weather, storage and time between location and sample analysis. Among the most used methods for identifying victims are the analisys of DNA, fingerprints and dental features. On the other hand, it´s becoming more ease offered by radiological images in this process. Although most efforts are destinated to the attention of the survivors, we can not forget the importance of identifying victims in disasters, mainly by the impact both legal level and at the humanitarian level, in orden to return the bodies to their families or repatriated.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Identificación de víctimas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[catástrofe]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ADN]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Identifying victims]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[disasters, ADN]]></kwd>
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