Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Deviated nasal septum (J34.2)	379
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (J35.0)	172
Peritonsillar abscess (J36)	156
Chronic sinusitis - Other chronic sinusitis (J32.8)	114
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic pansinusitis (J32.4)	95
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids - Hypertrophy of tonsils with hypertrophy of adenoids (J35.3)	76
Haemorrhage from respiratory passages - Epistaxis (R04.0)	70
Cholesteatoma of middle ear (H71)	56
Disorders of vestibular function (H81.2)	54
Acute tonsillitis (J03.9)	49

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Exchange or removal of the absorbent pack used to stop bleeding (tamponade) (8-506)	788
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.00)	599
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.4)	425
Examination of the larynx by endoscopy (1-610.2)	332
Surgical removal or reconstruction of the nasal septum (5-214.6)	320
Examination of the oesophagus by endoscopy (1-630.1)	250
Surgical removal of the palatine tonsils (without removal of the adenoids) - tonsillectomy without adenoidectomy (5-281.0)	187
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	184
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.1)	172
Operation on the ethmoid bone or on the sphenoid sinus (5-222.0)	149

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2600

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
82	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*
66	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
66	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
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Priv.-Doz. Dr. Oliver Al-Taie Lehrbeauftragung an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Seit 2006 ist das St. Franziskus-Hospital ein etablierter Ausbildungsstandort der Universität zu Köln. Seit Beginn haben hier weit mehr als 100 Studenten ihr internistisches Tertial absolviert und wurden erfolgreich zu Ärzten ausgebildet. - Betreuung von universitären Abschlussarbeiten
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Durchführung von pflegewissenschaftlichen Forschungsvorhaben
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Pflege
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	praktische Ausbildung in Kooperation
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	und Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegeassistent/in, Pflegefachassistent/innen sowie Medizinische Fachangestellte (MFA). Die Louise von Marillac-Schule ist eine Kooperationsschule der Katholischen Hochschule Köln.