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Toxic Embedded Fragment Surveillance Center
One of the missions of the MEDU Surveillance Center is to offer medical surveillance to Veterans injured by a bullet, blast, or explosion who have retained embedded fragments from their injury. MEDU will follow Veterans with fragments so that potential health problems can be identified and treated. To do this, the MEDU Surveillance Center has created a registry of post-9/11 Veterans who have had a fragment removed or who still have a fragment in their body.
As part of on-going surveillance, the MEDU Surveillance Center:
- Provides special testing for metals that might be released from the fragments.
- Uses test results to guide individual care of the Veteran.
- Uses information from the registry to write guidelines for medical care for other VA health care providers across the country.
Contact your local VA Environmental Health Coordinator, Veterans Exposure Team-Health Outcomes Military Exposures (VET-HOME), or VA Primary Care Team about getting a registry evaluation.
Download a info sheet about the Center in English.
