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Military Toxic Exposures: Understanding Burn Pits and Their Health Impacts
Activity description
Health care professionals (HCPs) play a crucial role in recognizing and addressing toxic exposures in veterans. Service members exposed to burn pits, widely used during military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations to dispose of waste, often experience long-term and complex health issues.
This on-demand webcast will include additional resources and will equip HCPs with the necessary knowledge to identify, diagnose and manage conditions associated with toxic exposure, including respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular effects and increased cancer risks.
At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the nature of burn pits and their toxic exposures, including common materials burned and mechanisms of exposure.
- Identify common health conditions linked to burn pit exposure, including respiratory, cardiovascular and neurologic effects.
- Apply best practices for screening, diagnosing and managing veterans affected by burn pit exposure.
- Utilize available resources, such as the PACT Act, Veterans Administration (VA) specialty clinics and community referral pathways, to ensure veterans receive appropriate care.
- Incorporate recent policy changes and evidence-based recommendations into clinical practice.
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This activity is provided by Optum Health Education and Optum Serve.
Commercial support
No commercial support was received for this activity.
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Presenter
Robert F. Miller, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Burn Pits 360
Rosie Torres
Co-Founder and Director
Burn Pits 360 Veteran Organization
Planners
Elizabeth Albert, MD
Clinical Planner
Optum Health Education
Robin Carter-Visscher, PhD
Deputy Medical Director, Veteran Services
Optum Serve
Sarah Chart, RN
Vice President
Optum Health Education
Rosie Torres
Co-Founder and Director
Burn Pits 360 Veteran Organization
Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Optum Health Education (OHE) requires all those in control of educational content to disclose their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined by the ACCME as companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients. Individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies and regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. OHE ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.
Dr. Robert Miller has no financial relationships to disclose.
The planners have no financial relationships to disclose.
Accreditation statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Optum Health Education and Optum Serve. Optum Health Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team.
Credit designation statements
Nurses
The participant will be awarded up to 1.00 contact hour(s) of credit for attendance and completion of supplemental materials.
Nurse practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Physicians
Optum Health Education designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PAs
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Psychologists
Optum Health Education is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Optum Health Education maintains responsibility for this program. 1.00 CE hour.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Optum Health Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Optum Health Education maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive up to 1.00 enduring continuing education credit.
Attendance
A certificate of attendance will be provided to learners upon completion of activity requirements, enabling participants to register with licensing boards or associations that have not been preapproved for credits. To apply for credit types not listed above, participants should use the procedure established by the specific organization from which they wish to obtain credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA - Physicians
- 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
- 1.00 APA - Psychologists
- 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
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