Illness	Number of cases
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	517
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	318
Other forms of angina pectoris (I20.8)	286
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	274
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	267
Pain in throat and chest (R07.3)	225
Acute myocardial infarction - Non-ST elevation NSTEMI myocardial infarction (I21.4)	164
Paroxysmal tachycardia - Supraventricular tachycardia (I47.1)	150
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Other pneumonia unspecified organism (J18.8)	140
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	123

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	1.112
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	1.002
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	860
(9-984.7)	721
Radio-controlled cardiological telemetry (8-933)	646
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	560
(9-984.8)	557
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart without a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-266.0)	387
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	316
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery - electrophysiological investigation (1-265.4)	303

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0300 , 0103 , 0100

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
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
CQ25
CQ01

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

Number	Group
70	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*
46	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
31	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
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	Theorie: Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe in Mönchengladbach Praxis: Radiologische Klinik des St. Bernhard Hospitals, Nuklearmedizinische Gemeinschaftspraxis in Duisburg sowie die Gemeinschaftspraxis für Strahlentherapie in Duisburg/Moers
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)