Illness	Number of cases
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	34
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	33
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	23
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	21
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	17
Other appendicitis (K36)	14
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	14
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	12
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	11
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.5)	11

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	72
(5-98c.0)	61
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	57
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation with measurement of the pressure in the superior vena cava (central venous pressure) (8-931.0)	54
(5-98c.1)	51
(8-98f.0)	50
Revision operations (5-983)	46
Treatment by washing out (lavage) the abdominal cavity with a drain and temporary closure of the abdominal wall (8-176.2)	46
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	41
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	40

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1500

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

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Diabetes mellitus Typ 2

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

No.	Explanation
CQ25
CQ28

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

Number	Group
134	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*
35	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
7	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

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)