Illness	Number of cases
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.13)	605
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	376
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.12)	257
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	237
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	199
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	197
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.11)	167
Acute myocardial infarction - Non-ST elevation NSTEMI myocardial infarction (I21.4)	144
Heart failure (I50.01)	142
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Typical atrial flutter (I48.3)	138

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.2)	1.673
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	1.292
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	1.287
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	1.198
Radio-controlled cardiological telemetry (8-933)	1.136
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	964
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.0c)	939
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.c6)	671
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	647
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.m0)	573

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

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ01

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
58	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*
36	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
36	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Lehrtätigkeit an Universität Witten/Herdecke
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Düsseldorf
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Nocturnal blood pressure and nocturnal blood pressure fluctuations: the effect of short-term CPAP therapy and their association with the severity of obstructive sleep apnea. J Clin Sleep Med . 2022 Feb 1;18(2):361-371.Effect of CPAP therapy on nocturnal blood pressure fluctuations, nocturnal blood p
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Chirurgische Lehrbuch-2018 Thieme Verlag Chirurgie und Bildgebung. Vortragstätigkeiten.
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	und CTA
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.