Illness	Number of cases
Thyrotoxicosis hyperthyroidism (E05.1)	75
Malignant neoplasm of thyroid gland (C73)	45
Thyrotoxicosis hyperthyroidism (E05.0)	20
Thyrotoxicosis hyperthyroidism (E05.2)	9

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Radiotherapy of the thyroid gland with radioactive iodine (8-531.00)	52
Radiotherapy of the thyroid gland with radioactive iodine (8-531.10)	52
Imaging procedure to show the thyroid gland by means of radioactivity (scintigraphy) (3-701)	38
Computed tomography (CT) of the chest without contrast medium (3-202)	34
Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen without contrast medium (3-207)	34
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	34
Imaging procedure of the whole body to show abnormal processes by means of radioactivity (scintigraphy) (3-70c.01)	23
Radiotherapy of the thyroid gland with radioactive iodine (8-531.11)	20
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	0
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	0

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 3200

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)