Abstract
When a disaster involving multiple victims occurs we must comply with the legal norms in force in Spain (Royal Decree 32/2009, enacting the National Protocol for the Intervention of Forensic Doctors and Scientific Police in Mass Disaster).The main aim of our study was to assess the response of Forensic Doctors through a practice simulating a bomb attack with 11 mortal victims. At the disaster scene there were 8 bodies and 22 corpse remains to be identified. The expected duration was 5 hours. In that time the identification of 8 persons was well under way (5 using fingerprint identification, odontology and DNA, and 3 using fingerprint identification and DNA).The numbering of the bodies at the specific area of the disaster scene, the coordination of Forensic Doctors and Scientific Police and the management of the quality control area were the main problems. Despite of the good results achieved, the need for specialised training of the professionals participating in this type of intervention, the need to conduct similar multidisciplinary exercises, and the adaptation of the protocol to the specific guidelines of the Catalan Institute of Legal Medicine was evident.
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