Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of nose and nasal sinuses - Deviated nasal septum (J34.2)	472
Suppurative and unspecified otitis media (H66.1)	293
Chronic sinusitis - Chronic pansinusitis (J32.4)	243
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids - Hypertrophy of tonsils with hypertrophy of adenoids (J35.3)	225
Sleep disorders - Primary central sleep apnea (G47.31)	194
Peritonsillar abscess (J36)	177
Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids (J35.0)	135
Acute tonsillitis (J03.8)	117
Haemorrhage from respiratory passages - Epistaxis (R04.0)	112
Benign neoplasm of major salivary glands - Benign neoplasm of parotid gland (D11.0)	94

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	1.944
Operation using lasers (5-985.1)	1.067
Examination of the larynx by endoscopy (1-610.2)	900
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.3)	857
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.4)	853
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.10)	809
Examination of the oesophagus by endoscopy (1-630.1)	777
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.00)	765
Operation on the inferior nasal concha (5-215.1)	752
Surgical incision into the outer ear (5-180.1)	740

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

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
CQ01
CQ31
CQ25

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

Number	Group
160	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*
110	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
109	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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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Physiotherapie-Schule. Ausbildung an eigenen Ausbildungsstätten.
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Schule für Operationstechnische Assistenten (OTA-Schule). Ausbildung an eigenen Ausbildungsstätten. Der ärztliche Dienst beteiligt sich an der Ausbildung von Physician Assistants.
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Krankenpflegeassistentin und Krankenpflegeassistent