Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Deviated nasal septum (J34.2)	592
Suppurative and unspecified otitis media (H66.1)	240
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic pansinusitis (J32.4)	206
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids - Hypertrophy of tonsils with hypertrophy of adenoids (J35.3)	194
Peritonsillar abscess (J36)	151
Other hearing loss (H91.2)	141
Sleep disorders - Primary central sleep apnea (G47.31)	134
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (J35.0)	123
Haemorrhage from respiratory passages - Epistaxis (R04.0)	115
Acute tonsillitis (J03.8)	109

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	1.889
Operation using lasers (5-985.1)	1.164
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.00)	938
Examination of the larynx by endoscopy (1-610.2)	879
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.10)	833
Examination of the oesophagus by endoscopy (1-630.1)	800
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.5)	766
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.1)	758
Surgical removal or reconstruction of the nasal septum (5-214.70)	733
Surgical removal or reconstruction of the nasal septum (5-214.6)	725

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2600

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

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Koronare Herzkrankheit (KHK)

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ01

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

Number	Group
145	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*
109	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
108	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
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Physiotherapie-Schule. Ausbildung an eigenen Ausbildungsstätten.
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Schule für Operationstechnische Assistenten (OTA-Schule). Ausbildung an eigenen Ausbildungsstätten. Der ärztliche Dienst beteiligt sich an der Ausbildung von Physician Assistants.
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Krankenpflegeassistentin und Krankenpflegeassistent