autohemotherapy /au·to·he·mo·ther·a·py/ (-he″mo-ther´ah-pe) treatment using an autotransfusion.
Autohemotherapy
autotransfusion [aw″to-trans-fu´zhun]
au·to·he·mo·ther·a·py (ô t -h m-th r  -p)n. Treatment of disease by the withdrawal and reinjection of the patient's own blood. |
Autohemotherapy
A form of ozone therapy in which a small quantity of the patient's blood is withdrawn, treated with a mixture of ozone and oxygen, and reinfused into the patient.
Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy
autotransfusion [aw″to-trans-fu´zhun]
1. reinfusion of a patient's own blood; see autologous transfusion.
2. in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as collecting and reinfusing blood which has been lost intraoperatively or postoperatively from clean wounds.
autohemotherapy
treatment by reinjection of the animal's own blood.
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