Illness	Number of cases
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	135
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	133
Acute myocardial infarction - Non-ST elevation NSTEMI myocardial infarction (I21.4)	122
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	117
Heart failure (I50.01)	108
Unstable angina (I20.0)	88
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	69
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.13)	67
Syncope and collapse (R55)	65
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.12)	55

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	786
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	426
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.bx)	364
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	360
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	354
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	340
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)	323
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.0b)	231
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	230
Measurement of the reaction of the respiratory tract to a stimulus (1-714)	230

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Chronische Herzinsuffizienz

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
68	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*
55	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
55	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
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Praktikum möglich
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Praktikum möglich