Illness	Number of cases
Glaucoma (H40.1)	960
Retinal detachments and breaks (H33.0)	732
Other affections of the retina - Degeneration of the macula and posterior pole - Other degeneration of the macula and posterior pole (H35.38)	709
Senile cataract (H25.8)	583
Other disorders of cornea (H18.5)	315
Glaucoma (H40.5)	160
Complications of other internal prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T85.2)	133
Disorders of vitreous body (H43.1)	118
Keratitis (H16.0)	111
Failure and rejection of transplanted organs and tissues (T86.83)	103

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Measurement of the intraocular pressure (1-220.0)	2.558
Surgical removal of the vitreous of the eye with another access, or other operations on the vitreous (5-159.4)	2.013
Revision operations (5-983)	1.472
Anaesthesia with administration of an anaesthetic into a vein (8-900)	1.446
Surgical removal of the lens of the eye without the lens capsule (5-144.5a)	1.222
Surgical destruction of diseased tissue in the retina or choroid of the eye (5-155.3)	955
Operation using lasers (5-985.0)	940
(5-158.5)	916
Other operations to fix the retina after detachment (5-154.4)	700
Other operations on the retina (5-156.9)	694

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 2700

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
63	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*
40	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
40	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
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Der wissenschaftliche Output der Augenklinik umfasst für das Berichtsjahr 2017 19 Publikationen in Peer Review Journals, 2 Übersichtsarbeiten und 7 Buchkapitel, Summe Impact Factor: 40,109
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Lehraufträge Radiologie/Nuklearmedizin
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Das Krankenhaus Sulzbach ist akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der medizinischen Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes und bildet in diesem Rahmen Studenten im praktischen Jahr aus (Famulatur/PJ)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Saarländ. Myokardinfarktregister (Innere Med.)Kooperationen der Augenklinik mit Fraunhofer Institut Sulzbach-IBMT, mit Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern und Universitäten (Tübingen, Hamburg Eppendorf, Leuven, Nat. Uni. Signapore, Tempere/Finnland). Zusammenarbeit mit Hochschulen in der Urologie.
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Lehrbeauftragung für PJ-Studenten an der Universität des Saarlandes (Innere Medizin) Lehraufträge Universität Tübingen und Universität des Saarlandes, Universität Signapore, Universität Bonn (Augenklinik), Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Radiologie). Weiterhin Lehraufträge der Chirurgie und Anästhesie
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Augenklinik: Phase III: - FOCUS - Velodrom - PORTAL - SANDCAT
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Augenklinik: Beobachtungsstudien: - TOFU - BLUE SKY - TES-RP (GB-A Erprobungsstudie) - GALTOS - INTERCEPT - STAR-LIFE Ebenso werden uni-/multizentrische Studien in der Urologie durchgeführt.
Doctoral supervision	Doktorandenbetreuung insbesondere in der Augenklinik. Weiterhin Doktorandenbetreuung in Chirurgie und Urologie, Radiologie (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Augenklinik: Phase I: - PRIMAvera (Zulassungsstudie Medizinprodukt) Phase II: - REVISION (Arzneimittelstudie in Kooperation mit der Neurologie) Innere: Teilnahme am Saarländischen Myokardinfektregister

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)