Illness	Number of cases
Congenital malformations of cardiac septa - Atrial septal defect (Q21.1)	92
Congenital malformations of cardiac septa - Ventricular septal defect (Q21.0)	74
Congenital malformations of great arteries - Stenosis of pulmonary artery (Q25.6)	58
Congenital malformations of great arteries - Patent ductus arteriosus (Q25.0)	37
Congenital malformations of great arteries - Coarctation of aorta (Q25.1)	34
Complications of cardiac and vascular prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T82.0)	26
Congenital malformations of pulmonary and tricuspid valves - Congenital pulmonary valve stenosis (Q22.1)	24
Congenital malformations of cardiac septa - Tetralogy of Fallot (Q21.3)	23
Congenital malformations of cardiac septa - Atrioventricular septal defect (Q21.2)	22
Other pulmonary heart diseases (I27.28)	19

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the right side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via a vein (1-273.1)	353
Examination of the right side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via a vein (1-273.5)	351
Examination of the right side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via a vein (1-273.2)	350
Insertion of a tube into the trachea for ventilation - intubation (8-701)	339
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.6)	253
Administration of medicines to sedate and eliminate pain (8-903)	252
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)	229
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	201
Use of a face, nasal, or laryngeal mask for mechanical ventilation (8-706)	186
Anaesthesia with administration of an anaesthetic first into a vein, then via the respiratory tract (8-902)	156

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1100

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

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Koronare Herzkrankheit (KHK)

Beitritt am 02.12.2005, Abteilung Innere Medizin III (Kardiologie, Angiologie, Pneumologie)

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ01
CQ03	Enge Kooperation mit Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
CQ02
CQ04
CQ05
CQ08
CQ24
CQ25

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

Number	Group
801	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*
514	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
450	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	26 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiter: Andreas Motzkus
HB10	Midwife (m/f)	Hebamme B. Sc.: Das UKHD hat 45 Studienplätze in Kooperation mit der Hochschule Ludwigshafen: Duales Studium Hebammenwissenschaft \| Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Ludwigshafen (hwg-lu.de)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	65 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Barbara Suppé
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegehelfer und Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegehelferin: 15 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiter: Burkhard Götsch
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)	30 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Susanne Janknecht
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)	60 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Hildegard Hack
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	75 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Stephanie Biedenstein
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	75 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiter: Andreas Motzkus
HB14	Orthoptist (m/f)	12 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiterin: Birgit Wahl
HB19	Nursing professionals	415 Ausbildungsplätze, Schulleiter: Burkhard Götsch
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	Das UKHD hat 10 Studienplätze in Kooperation mit der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Ludwigshafen: https://www.hwg-lu.de/studium/bachelor/pflege-studieren