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Joseph A. Barbera
Researcher at George Washington University
Publications - 39
Citations - 2004
Joseph A. Barbera is an academic researcher from George Washington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emergency management & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 39 publications receiving 1875 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph A. Barbera include Albert Einstein College of Medicine & The Joint Commission.
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Frail Elderly as Disaster Victims: Emergency Management Strategies
TL;DR: The frail elderly is growing rapidly and it is important that emergency management recognize the frail elderly as a special needs population, and develop targeted strategies that meet their needs.
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Refining surge capacity: conventional, contingency, and crisis capacity.
TL;DR: The use of refined definitions of surge capacity as it relates to space, staffing, and supply concerns during a mass casualty incident may aid phased implementation of Surge capacity plans at health care facilities and enhance the consistency of terminology and data collection between facilities and regions.
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Weapons of mass destruction events with contaminated casualties: effective planning for health care facilities
Anthony G. Macintyre,George W. Christopher,Edward M. Eitzen,Robert Gum,Scott Weir,Craig DeAtley,Kevin Tonat,Joseph A. Barbera +7 more
TL;DR: This work discusses HCF planning for terrorist events that expose large numbers of people to contamination, and discusses the optimal choice of personal protective equipment, establishment of patient decontamination procedures, and potential environmental impacts on water treatment systems.
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Large-scale quarantine following biological terrorism in the United States: scientific examination, logistic and legal limits, and possible consequences.
Joseph A. Barbera,Anthony G. Macintyre,Lawrence O. Gostin,Thomas V. Inglesby,Tara O'Toole,Craig DeAtley,Kevin Tonat,Marci Layton +7 more
TL;DR: The scientific principles that are relevant to the likely effectiveness of quarantine, the logistic barriers to its implementation, legal issues that a large-scale quarantine raises, and possible adverse consequences that might result from quarantine action are reviewed.
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Surviving collapsed structure entrapment after earthquakes: a "time-to-rescue" analysis.
TL;DR: A thorough search of the English-language medical literature and media accounts provides a provocative picture of numerous survivors beyond 48 hours of entrapment under rubble, with a few successfully enduring entrapped individuals of 13–14 days.