Illness	Number of cases
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	196
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	188
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	179
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	150
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	111
Syncope and collapse (R55)	72
Pain in throat and chest (R07.4)	65
Volume depletion (E86)	57
Hypertensive heart disease without heart failure (I11.91)	56
Paroxysmal tachycardia - Supraventricular tachycardia (I47.1)	46

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Radio-controlled cardiological telemetry (8-933)	616
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	546
Standard screening examination of elderly people (1-771)	456
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)	368
(9-984.7)	301
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	300
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	243
Interdisciplinary care and screening examination of elderly people (1-770)	233
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	191
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	185

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 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*
58	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
55	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Universität Heidelberg: PD Dr. med. Elsing, Universität Düsseldorf: PD Dr. med. Gross-Weege, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover: Prof. Dr. med. Haeseler, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität: PD Dr. med. Baums
Doctoral supervision	Universität Heidelberg: PD Dr. med. Elsing, Universität Düsseldorf: PD Dr. med. Gross-Weege, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover: Prof. Dr. med. Haeseler Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität: PD Dr. med. Baums
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Zertifizierter Ausbilder der Initiative AGA-Studenten: PD Dr. med. Baums
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Universität Heidelberg: PD Dr. med. Elsing, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover: Prof. Dr. med. Haeseler, KKRN GmbH in Zusammenarbeit mit der medizinischen Hochschule Hannover: Prof. Dr. med. Haeseler, Multizentrische Studien mit den Fachgesellschaften ESSKA, ISAKOS und AGA: PD Dr. med. Baums
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Prof. Dr. med. Haeseler, PD Dr. med. Gross-Weege, PD Dr. med. Elsing, PD Dr. med. Baums
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	St. Elisabeth Bildungsinstitut für Gesundheitsberufe GmbH, Hülskampsweg 1-3, 46282 Dorsten, Tel: 02362 29-515502, E-Mail: dorsten.bildungsinstitut@kkrn.de
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)