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autologous unit

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autologous unit
Transfusion medicine A unit of RBCs or other blood product to be transfused into the donor at the time of elective surgery. See Autologous transfusion.


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The hospital must pay the blood center for the autologous units collected and received, but the hospital cannot collect for this loss from the patient's payer.
Autologous units are used within the hospital and are not tested for viral markers, the EIR stated.
Since only about 1 million autologous units are donated each year, Lipton said, the error would occur rarely - about once every 250 years.
 
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