title: Todd's Paresis in Acute Mild Head Trauma.
abstract: We present the case of an adult male who sustained Todd's paresis after a traumatically induced seizure in a patient with an isolated facial injury. The precipitating event was head trauma from a golf club. The patient had no previous history of seizures and went on to make a complete neurologic recovery with no cerebral pathology noted. A literature review suggests that Todd's paresis after trauma is very rare as opposed to occurring in the medical or long-term brain injury settings. Although the authors acknowledge that it may occur in trauma, the awareness within the prehospital setting is sufficiently rare for this case report to be of interest to prehospital clinicians; it is important prehospital clinicians are aware of this condition.
authors.affiliation: KSS Air Ambulance Foundation Trust, Marden, Kent, UK; South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS, Banstead, UK. Electronic address: alan.cowley@secamb.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cowley
authors.affiliation: KSS Air Ambulance Foundation Trust, Marden, Kent, UK; South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS, Banstead, UK.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: KSS Air Ambulance Foundation Trust, Marden, Kent, UK.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Breen
authors.affiliation: KSS Air Ambulance Foundation Trust, Marden, Kent, UK; University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lyon
mesh_terms: D017732:Air Ambulances; D001037:Aphasia / Q000209:etiology*; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D016489:Head Injuries, Closed / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology*; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology*; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology*; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices