Illness	Number of cases
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	383
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	112
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	85
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Typical atrial flutter (I48.3)	84
Paroxysmal tachycardia - Supraventricular tachycardia (I47.1)	67
Other cardiac arrhythmias - Sick sinus syndrome (I49.5)	56
Adjustment and management of implanted device (Z45.00)	51
Syncope and collapse (R55)	39
Atrioventricular and left bundle-branch block - Atrioventricular block complete (I44.2)	32
Paroxysmal tachycardia - Ventricular tachycardia (I47.2)	26

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	398
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	360
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted via an artery and across the septum of the heart (1-274.3)	162
Electrical measurement of the heart in looking for the cause of a cardiac arrhythmia - cardiac mapping (1-268.0)	115
Destruction of the heart tissue because of a cardiac arrhythmia (8-835.a5)	106
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	97
Insertion of a cardiac pacemaker or of a defibrillator (5-377.30)	86
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	62
Destruction of the heart tissue because of a cardiac arrhythmia (8-835.b5)	52
Use of a cardiac pacemaker that can be used in a magnetic resonance tomography unit (5-934.0)	47

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0103

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

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Asthma bronchiale

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

No.	Explanation
CQ07
CQ01
CQ25

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

Number	Group
160	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*
32	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
32	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	Prof. Dr. Silomon:Universitätsklinikum Homburg/Saar Prof. Dr. Wöhrle: Universität Heidelberg, Fakultät für Medizin Mannheim PD Dr. Herber, Prof. Dr. Wöhrle, PD Dr. Post, PD Dr. Yu, PD Dr. Hürtgen: J. Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Praktisches Jahr und Famulaturen nationaler und internationaler Studierender (ERASMUS-Programm) in den verschiedenen Kliniken.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Prof. Dr. Wöhrle: Universität Erlangen (Hirnblutungsprojekt) Dr. Holsten, Dr. Kilian: Teilnahme und Vorträge MTI Mittelrhein Univ. Koblenz PD Dr. Herber: Koop. Klinik für Diagn. und Interv. Radiologie J.G.U. Mainz PD Dr. Yu: Universität Jena und Mainz PD Dr. Hürtgen: Universität Mainz
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Mehrere Abteilungen beteiligen sich aktiv an multizentrischen Studien.
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Mehrere Abteilungen beteiligen sich aktiv an multizentrischen Studien.
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Mehrere Abteilungen beteiligen sich aktiv an multizentrischen Studien.
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Dr. Holsten, Prof. Wöhrle, Dr. Werner, Dr. Keller, Dr. Post, Dr. Yu, Dr. Kappes, Dr. Hein, Dr. Hürtgen: Veröffentlichung wiss. Artikel und Vorträge Prof Wöhrle: Lehrbuchartikel Dr. Post: wiss. Beirat der Sportärztezeitung
Doctoral supervision	In Zusammenarbeit mit der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Prof. Dr. Silomon: eigene Mitarbeiter über Uniklinik Homburg/Saar

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	Kooperation mit der Katholischen Hochschule Mainz
HB19	Nursing professionals