Dear Andrew Smith,
Greetings from coastal Suffolk. Please find below some information which
might be of relevance to your posting on DVT and air travel.
House of Lords fifth report titled “Air travel & Health” published in late
2000 discusses various issues regarding air travel & DVT, reviews the
evidence so far and can be accessed on line @
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldselect/ldsctech/121/12101.htm
Current guidelines on management of venous thromboembolism from the
Institute of clinical systems improvement (beware it is a 74 pages long PDF
document)Bloomington (MN): Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
(ICSI); 2002 Jan. 74 p.
http://www.icsi.org/guide/VTE.pdf
A patient information leaflet from air health on travel associated DVT
http://www.airhealth.org/leaflet.html
Some recent correspondence in CMAJ on air travel & venous thromboembolism
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/165/8/1006
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/166/7/885-a
(Conflict of interest – I happened to be the author of the second letter in
CMAJ).
Hope the above is of some interest.
Cheers & regards,
Badri
http://myprofile.cos.com/badrishanthi
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