Illness	Number of cases
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	151
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	148
Varicose veins of lower extremities (I83.9)	133
Superficial injury of head (S00.95)	126
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	109
Lipomatosis not elsewhere classified (E88.22)	101
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	90
Superficial injury of head (S00.85)	81
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	74
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	68

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.5)	56
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.eh)	40
Operation on the synovium by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-811.0h)	32
Examination of a joint by endoscopy (1-697.7)	27
Removal of the devices used to fix bone fragments, e.g. in fractures (5-787.1r)	22
Surgical procedure to remove varicose veins from the leg (5-385.70)	21
Other operations on blood vessels (5-399.5)	19
Surgical procedure to remove varicose veins from the leg (5-385.4)	11
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.fh)	11
Removal, exchange or correction of a pacemaker or defibrillator (5-378.52)	8

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1500

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Koronare Herzkrankheit (KHK)

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*
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
1	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	Kooperation Katholische Hochschule in Mainz
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Kooperation Winterbergkliniken Saarbrücken
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	In Kooperation mit Klinikum Saarbrücken.
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der Universitätsklinik Homburg.