Deep vein thrombosis

As a curtain raiser to the report of the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee, the media fell into a moral panic about ‘economy flight syndrome’, fuelled by the sad death of 28-year-old Emma Christoffersen, who had no history of such illness, after a longhaul flight. Research had already indicated an association of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) with long flights in cramped seating conditions.