Illness	Number of cases
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	164
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.13)	162
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	152
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.12)	120
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	111
Syncope and collapse (R55)	102
Acute myocardial infarction - Non-ST elevation NSTEMI myocardial infarction (I21.4)	85
Chronic ischaemic heart disease - Atherosclerotic heart disease of native coronary artery without angina pectoris (I25.10)	80
Unstable angina (I20.0)	78
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.11)	75

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)	981
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	418
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart without a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-266.0)	355
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	310
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.08)	310
(9-984.7)	306
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.m0)	208
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)	201
Other investigations of the heart or blood vessels by means of a tube (catheter) (1-279.a)	200
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	155

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0300

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
CQ01

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

Number	Group
86	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*
69	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
61	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung im Ausbildungsverbund mit der Augusta-Krankenanstalt Bochum
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung im Ausbildungsverbund mit der Augusta-Krankenanstalt Bochum
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Ausbildung in Kooperation mit dem Kirchlichen Gesundheitszentrum für Gesundheitsberufe in Gelsenkirchen
HB19	Nursing professionals