Illness	Number of cases
Heart failure (I50.01)	369
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	169
Pain in throat and chest (R07.3)	145
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	124
Acute myocardial infarction - Non-ST elevation NSTEMI myocardial infarction (I21.4)	106
Volume depletion (E86)	82
Unstable angina (I20.0)	75
Syncope and collapse (R55)	69
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	62
Hypertensive heart disease without heart failure (I11.91)	60

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Radio-controlled cardiological telemetry (8-933)	718
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	647
(9-984.7)	427
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	393
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	390
(9-984.8)	344
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	336
Computed tomography (CT) of the chest without contrast medium (3-202)	312
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of the upper digestive tract, biliary tract or the pancreas by endoscopy (1-440.a)	305
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	263

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Department key: 0100

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

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
16	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*
11	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
11	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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