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April 19, 2006
Identifying The Dead
RFID technology is being put to use in the most unusual situations. RFID chips from VeriChip were used as a way to identify the dead following the wake of the destruction wreaked by Hurricane Katrina. The chip had the advantage over toe-tags and bar codes in that they were injected just beneath the skin of the cadaver's left arm, and thus could not be dislodged. They served the purpose of helping relatives identify loved ones through their description and identifying features like height, weight, hair and eye color, clothes worn, etc., without opening up the body bags and doing a physical search of each. Instead, scanners were run over the bags to discover the one with the matching identification characteristics. The chips were inserted by pathologists with the help of members of DMORT, the U.S. Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team.
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