Illness	Number of cases
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	322
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	161
Paroxysmal tachycardia - Supraventricular tachycardia (I47.1)	67
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Typical atrial flutter (I48.3)	38
Paroxysmal tachycardia - Ventricular tachycardia (I47.2)	37
Other cardiac arrhythmias - Ventricular premature depolarization (I49.3)	33
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Atypical atrial flutter (I48.4)	24
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.9)	16
Atrioventricular and left bundle-branch block - Atrioventricular block complete (I44.2)	12
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	9

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Destruction of the heart tissue because of a cardiac arrhythmia (8-835.8)	486
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	445
Destruction of the heart tissue because of a cardiac arrhythmia (8-835.h)	424
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted via an artery and across the septum of the heart (1-274.3)	354
Electrical measurement of the heart in looking for the cause of a cardiac arrhythmia - cardiac mapping (1-268.1)	349
Destruction of the heart tissue because of a cardiac arrhythmia (8-835.35)	330
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery - electrophysiological investigation (1-265.e)	329
Destruction of the heart tissue because of a cardiac arrhythmia (8-835.j)	322
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	288
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart without a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-266.0)	84

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

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Koronare Herzkrankheit (KHK)

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ08
CQ01

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

Number	Group
62	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*
58	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”

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Research & teaching

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

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)