Illness	Number of cases
Fracture of forearm (S52.51)	80
Dislocation sprain and strain of joints and ligaments at wrist and hand level (S63.3)	72
Arthrosis of first carpometacarpal joint (M18.1)	66
Fibroblastic disorders - Palmar fascial fibromatosis Dupuytren (M72.0)	62
Cellulitis (L03.01)	37
Mononeuropathies of upper limb (G56.0)	33
Other congenital malformations of limbs - Other congenital malformations of upper limbs including shoulder girdle (Q74.0)	33
Injury of muscle and tendon at wrist and hand level (S66.1)	27
Cellulitis (L03.10)	21
Other specific joint derangements (M24.23)	16

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	187
Operation on the synovium by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-811.28)	109
Operation on the synovium by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-811.29)	108
Surgical reduction of a comminuted fracture in the joint region of a long bone and fixation of the bone fragments using devices such as screws or plates (5-794.k6)	81
Operation to divide adhesions around a nerve or to relieve pressure on the nerve or to abolish the nerve function (5-056.40)	78
Revision operations (5-983)	60
(5-896.19)	57
Operation on the connective tissue sheaths around the muscles and tendons in the hand or fingers (5-842.71)	56
Surgical procedure on the joints of the hand apart from the wrist (5-844.55)	51
Surgical removal of the synovium in the hand (5-845.00)	51

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2300

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
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
74	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*
11	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
11	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”

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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Prof. Dr. med. B. Fink - Professur für Orthopädie -- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf apl. Prof Dr. med. M. Haerle - Professur für Plastische Chirurgie -- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Prof. Dr. med. P. Schuster - Associate Professor in Orthopädie & Unfallchirurgie -- PMU Salzburg
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Institut für Pflegewissenschaft und -praxis der Paracelsus Medizinischen Privatuniversität, Salzburg
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Medizinstudium; Berufsbegleitendes Studium der Pflege

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals	Pflegeausbildung über RKH-Berufsfachschule für Pflege der Kliniken Ludwigsburg Bietigheim GmbH
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	Studium der Pflegewissenschaft in Kooperation mit Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität Salzburg
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Kooperation mit Ausbildungsstätte
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Kooperation mit Ausbildungsstätte
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Kooperation mit Ausbildungsstätte
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Pflegeausbildung und Studium der Pflegewissenschaft über RKH-Berufsfachschule für Pflege der Kliniken Ludwigsburg-Bietigheim gGmbH
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Kooperation mit Ausbildungsstätte