Illness	Number of cases
Atherosclerosis (I70.22)	48
Atherosclerosis (I70.24)	31
Atherosclerosis - Atherosclerosis of native arteries of other extremities with ulceration (I70.25)	27
Atherosclerosis (I70.23)	23
Type 2 diabetes mellitus not insulin dependent from the start (E11.74)	22
Occlusion and stenosis of precerebral arteries not resulting in cerebral infarction (I65.2)	12
Cellulitis (L03.11)	9
Erysipelas (A46)	7
Arterial embolism and thrombosis - Embolism and thrombosis of arteries of the lower extremities (I74.3)	7
Varicose veins of lower extremities (I83.9)	6

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
X-rays of the arteries in the legs with contrast medium (3-607)	80
Computed tomography (CT) of the blood vessels other than the main arteries and veins near the heart with contrast medium (3-228)	63
(9-984.8)	44
Surgical removal of a blood clot including the adjacent inner wall of an artery (5-381.70)	43
X-rays of the arteries in the pelvis with contrast medium (3-605)	39
Patient education (9-500.0)	39
(9-984.7)	38
Nature of the graft material (5-930.3)	34
Surgical opening of the blood vessels or removal of a blood clot (5-380.70)	32
Transfusion of blood, red blood cells or platelets from a donor to a recipient (8-800.c0)	32

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1800

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

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”

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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