Illness	Number of cases
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	177
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	170
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	123
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Pneumonia unspecified organism (J18.9)	119
Acute bronchitis - Acute bronchitis unspecified (J20.9)	95
Syncope and collapse (R55)	86
Pain in throat and chest (R07.3)	58
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.09)	55
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute exacerbation (J44.19)	49
Heart failure (I50.01)	34

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
(9-984.8)	359
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	335
(9-984.7)	260
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	220
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	186
(9-984.9)	180
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	110
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	91
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	86
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	79

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ31

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
53	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
45	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
39	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Die Ausbildung zum Krankenpflegehelfer bzw. zur Krankenpflegehelferin findet in Kooperation mit der Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe (AGP) Viersen statt. Insgesamt werden 4 Plätze vergeben, Ausbildungsbeginn ist zum 01.03. jeden Jahres.
HB19	Nursing professionals	Die Ausbildung zur Pflegefachfrau bzw. zum Pflegefachmann findet in Kooperation mit der Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe (AGP) Viersen statt. Insgesamt werden 14 Plätze vergeben, Ausbildungsbeginn ist zum 01.03. und 01.09. jeden Jahres.