Illness	Number of cases
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	512
(I21.40)	275
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	254
Bacterial pneumonia not elsewhere classified - Unspecified bacterial pneumonia (J15.9)	242
Other forms of angina pectoris (I20.8)	194
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	192
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	181
Unstable angina (I20.0)	158
Heart failure (I50.01)	140
Chronic ischaemic heart disease (I25.13)	129

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)	1.450
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)	1.449
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	1.279
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.0c)	918
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	722
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	667
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.m0)	450
(9-984.8)	404
Additional information on materials used (8-83b.c6)	361
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	324

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3600 , 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
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

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
89	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*
85	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
70	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	weitere Ergänzungen siehe Kapitel A3 "Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus"
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Lehrbeauftragung an der Universität zu Köln und an der Universität Marburg zu Neurologischen Schwerpunkten
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Lehrauftrag/Lehrbeauftragung für Chirurgie, Anästhesie, Intensiv- & Notfallmedizin an der Uniklinik RWTH Aachen und der Medizinischen Fakultät der RWTH Aachen.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	diese Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach angeboten.
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	diese Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach angeboten.
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	diese Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach angeboten.
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	diese praktische Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der Malteser-Schule Aachen und dem NOBIZ in Düren angeboten.
HB10	Midwife (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung der Studentinnen der Hebammenwissenschaft in Kooperation mit der RWTH Aachen
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)