Ante-mortem (AM) data
Definition
Information gathered from family members, medical providers, or records about the appearance, health history, dental treatment, and fingerprints of a person before death, used in DVI to match against post-mortem findings.
Related terms
- Disaster victim identification (DVI)
- The systematic process of identifying the deceased after a mass-casualty event using the INTERPOL DVI form sets, which standardise ante-mortem and post-mortem...
- Family liaison officer (FLO)
- A dedicated contact point between the investigation and the bereaved family, responsible for two-way information flow: collecting AM data from the family...
- Mass-casualty incident (MCI)
- An event that produces more casualties than available resources can immediately manage, requiring special coordination between emergency services, hospitals, morgues, and victim-identification...
- Post-mortem (PM) data
- Information collected from a recovered body or body fragment : physical description, dental examination, fingerprints, DNA profile, personal effects : used in...
- Secondary traumatic stress
- Psychological distress in responders resulting from exposure to others' trauma and death at mass-casualty events. Includes intrusive images, emotional numbing, hypervigilance, and...
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- Mass-Casualty Incidents and DVI Nursing RolesInformation gathered from family members, medical providers, or records about the appearance, health history, dental treatment, and fingerprints of a person be...