Dong, Wei
Wan, Ding-yuan
Yang, Xiang
Fu, Min
Liu, Xing
Li, Hao
Xie, Xiao-qi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9403-2964
Article History
Received: 9 April 2021
Accepted: 29 September 2021
First Online: 26 October 2021
Declarations
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: The Ethics Committee on Biomedical Research, West China Hospital of Sichuan University has considered ethics approval for case reports to be unnecessary and did not process our application. Ethics approval was therefore waived. Informed consent was obtained from the patient’s father to publish her case.
: The patient had mild disturbance of consciousness when arriving our hospital. She soon authorized her farther to be her agent before her admission. When the patient recovered consciousness from surgery, she was unable to write or pronounce necessary sentences that may serve as the informed consent. Once her speech improved, Montreal Cognitive Assessment was performed to evaluate her cognitive ability. The Result was 25, which is lower than 26, the threshold of the assessment, and therefore she was considered incapable of providing oral or written informed consent properly at that time. The written informed consent was then signed by her guardian, i.e., her farther. A copy of the written consent form is available for review by the editor of this journal.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.