Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	129
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	102
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	59
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	46
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	42
Erysipelas (A46)	33
Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of oral cavity and digestive organs (D37.70)	28
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	28
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	27
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia - Ileus unspecified (K56.7)	26

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	255
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	190
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)	90
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.33)	89
Insertion or exchange of a tube (catheter) in a large vein (8-831.0)	74
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	68
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	66
(9-984.7)	66
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.42)	61
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)	57

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

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

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
CQ28
CQ01

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

Number	Group
90	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*
72	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
64	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen von Forschungsprojekten
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Duale Studiengänge und Master-Studiengänge werden angeboten.
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	In der Anästhesie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie, in der Innere Medizin III - Kardiologie und Rhythmologie und in der Innere Medizin IV - Hämatologie und Onkologie
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Herausgabe von eigenen Lehrbüchern
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Im Verbund mit 9 weiteren Krankenhäusern wird die Louise von Marillac-Schule als kath. Bildungsstätte für Berufe im Gesundheitswesen mit Ausbildungsplätzen für 140 Pflegefachfrauen/-männern im Jahr und 50 Pflegefachassistenten im Jahr.
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	In Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule Fresenius
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	In Kooperation mit dem Rettungsdienst der Stadt Köln
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)