Illness	Number of cases
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	217
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	208
Other forms of angina pectoris (I20.8)	141
(I21.40)	139
Unstable angina (I20.0)	127
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	121
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	119
Syncope and collapse (R55)	113
Heart failure (I50.01)	108
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	105

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)	736
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.c6)	563
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	531
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	345
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	331
(9-984.7)	303
(9-984.8)	262
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.m0)	236
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	231
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.2)	203

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
47	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*
37	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
37	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Als Kooperationspartner übernehmen wir die praktische Ausbildung eines Operationstechnischen Assistenten/ in in unserem Haus. Die Auszubildenden werden innerhalb von drei Jahren intensiv auf die vielfältigen Aufgaben im Operationsdienst vorbereitet.
HB19	Nursing professionals	In der Evangelischen Pflegeakademie Bergisch Land stehen 175 Ausbildungsplätze zur Verfügung. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Agaplesion Bethesda Krankenhaus Wuppertal bildet das EVK Mettmann jährlich bis zu 50 Pflegekräfte aus. Dozenten sind Pflegepädagogen, Ärzte und Fachkräfte des Gesundheitswesens.
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Als Kooperationspartner im Rahmen des Praktischen Einsatzes in den Bereichen Innere Medizin, Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe, Chirurgie und Orthopädie