Citation

Cowley A, Wright D, Breen T, Lyon R. Air Med. J. 2016; 35(6): 369-370.

Affiliation

KSS Air Ambulance Foundation Trust, Marden, Kent, UK; University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amj.2016.07.006

PMID

27894562

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.

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Language: en