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Klinikum Altmühlfranken Weißenburg

Viszeral-, Thoraxchirurgie und Proktologie

With emergency ambulance

Information and services of the department

Number of cases

Number of inpatient cases: 2.265

Staffing

Doctors m/f (including affiliated doctors): 16,36

Nursing staff: 22,79

Specialist expertise and further training

Medical expertiseSpecialist training and additional training
Nursing expertiseFurther education / academic degrees and additional qualifications

Medical service offering with case numbers

Top 10 illnesses

Illness	Number of cases
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	115
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	102
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	76
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	75
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	73
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.4)	63
Other functional intestinal disorders - Other constipation (K59.09)	57
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	50
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia - Ileus unspecified (K56.7)	37
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	37

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	454
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	194
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	166
(9-984.7)	162
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	144
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	144
Injection of water into the intestine to facilitate bowel emptying, e.g. with paraplegia - transanal irrigation (8-126)	118
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	117
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)	114
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a5)	112

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

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

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 participation

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

Number	Group
26	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*
17	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
17	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

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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Famulaturen, Klinikstudent (finanzielle Förderung ab dem 5. Semester). Die Region Altmühlfranken ist Partner im Programm „Beste Landpartie Allgemeinmedizin“ (BeLA Nord). Das Klinikum Altmühlfranken ist als Teil des Projekts akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Erlangen.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)	in Kooperation mit der Berufsfachschule
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	in Kooperation mit Klinikum Fürth
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)