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autotransfusion /au·to·trans·fu·sion/ (-trans-fu´zhun) reinfusion of a patient's own blood.

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Infusion of blood or blood products into the individual from whom they were originally withdrawn.

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.

autotransfusion

reinfusion of a patient's own blood.

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