It states how airlines knowing the risk of pulmonary embolism had completely avoided "providing the proper seats, equipment and warnings to the traveling public who are totally within their care and control while on board the aircraft" (Louis S. Franecke, Esq.).
Out of the three websites, the last one which I visited was a long read and the information in it did not relate to my situation. It was focused more upon the fact that air travel increases the risk of pulmonary embolism but the airlines did nothing to solve the issue. Although it did deal with air travel and pulmonary embolism, the information in it was not well presented and it addressed to other issues not related to me. I spent about 1 hour reading through the three websites. The second website, being the news article did address to my issue but to check whether it had anything to do with air travel and pulmonary embolism I had to half of the article before I came to the concerned information. I would not mind recommending this article to someone but I prefer recommending the first website. The reason being that it had highlighted keywords and to derive information from there was really easy and took the shortest time. Moreover whatever information I could derive from the second and third websites combined, I found all of that in the first website. Hence my recommendation to anyone would be the first website. From my study I derived that air travel increases the risk of pulmonary embolism and one needs to intake fluids during flight. Moreover there should be some form of physical activity in the plane. I further conclude that increasing the distance of air travel increases the risk of pulmonary embolism and symptoms like chest pain can be due to pulmonary embolism. I wanted to know how authentic my conclusion was and thus wished to check a journal entry regarding this issue.
The Journal entry which is attached below, was a study done at the airport of France where observations were made as to how many people...
It was the New English Journal of Medicine and it had a detailed study about the distance traveled by air and the number of patients who developed the condition. I was pleased to see that it confirmed the information presented in the first website and confirmed that air travels beyond 3,100 increases the risk to much greater extents. They concluded that "The incidence of pulmonary embolism was much higher among passengers traveling more than 5000 km (3100 mi) (1.5 cases per million, as compared with 0.01 case per million among those traveling less than 5000 km). The incidence of pulmonary embolism was 4.8 cases per million for those traveling more than 10,000 km (6200 mi)." (Frederic Lapostolle, M.D., et al.). The Journal entry also stated that people who were diagnosed for pulmonary embolism exhibited symptoms of chest pain, shortness of breath and malaise. My evaluation was confirmed by the research article and to most of what the first website presented. This adds on to the reason why I would recommend the first website to others. Without doubt air travel increases the risk of pulmonary embolism.
References
1) Anonymous - Longer Flights and Winter Tied to Increased Blood Clot Risk. [Online website] Available at http://www.mercola.com/2001/sep/22/blood_clot_risks.htm[Accessed on: 25/10/2005]
2) Roni Rabin - Pulmonary embolism can kill the young, too. [Online website] Available at http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-hsrabin0518,0,5886796.column?coll=ny-health-columnists[Accessed on: 25/10/2005]
3) Louis S. Franecke, Esq. - Pulmonary Embolism Caused By Blood Clotting on Airline Flights -- A Legal Perspective. [Online website] Available from: www.sfms.org/sfm/sfm302c.htm[Accessed on: 25/10/2005]
4) Frederic Lapostolle, M.D., et al. - Severe Pulmonary Embolism Associated with Air Travel. The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 345:779-783, September 13, 2001
