Illness	Number of cases
Respiratory failure not elsewhere classified - Acute respiratory failure with hypoxia (J96.01)	17
Respiratory failure not elsewhere classified - Chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia (J96.11)	7
Viral pneumonia not elsewhere classified (J12.8)	5
Pyothorax without fistula (J86.9)	5
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.1)	4
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung - Malignant neoplasm of middle lobe bronchus or lung (C34.2)	4
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection (J44.00)	4
Other interstitial pulmonary diseases (J84.1)	4
Respiratory tuberculosis bacteriologically and histologically confirmed - Primary respiratory tuberculosis (A15.7)	not specified
Malignant neoplasm of oesophagus - Malignant neoplasm of middle third of esophagus (C15.4)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	1.171
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)	481
Use of a face, nasal, or laryngeal mask for mechanical ventilation (8-706)	94
Other treatment of the heart or the blood vessels through a tube (catheter) (8-839.x)	88
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation with measurement of the pressure in the superior vena cava (central venous pressure) (8-931.0)	78
Insertion or exchange of a tube (catheter) in a large vein (8-831.0)	76
Division of adhesions between the lungs and chest wall - lysis of adhesions (5-333.1)	73
Treatment on the intensive care unit (basic procedures) (8-980.0)	65
Transfusion of blood, red blood cells or platelets from a donor to a recipient (8-800.c0)	57
Other operations on the chest (5-349.6)	52

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3600

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

Chronische obstruktive Lungenerkrankung (COPD)

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ27

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

Number	Group
37	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*
3	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
3	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Multizentrische Studien werden in den Bereichen Asthma, COPD, Lungenkrebs, Lungenfibrose und pulmonale Hypertonie durchgeführt.
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Multizentrische Studien werden in den Bereichen Asthma, COPD, Lungenkrebs, Lungenfibrose und pulmonale Hypertonie durchgeführt.
Doctoral supervision