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Knappschaftsklinikum Saar GmbH, Krankenhaus Sulzbach

Innere Medizin

An der Klinik 10
66280 Sulzbach

Phone: 06897-574-1101
Fax: 06897-574-2325
Mail: ed.raaskk@hcabzlus.erenni

With emergency ambulance
Approach

Medical administration

Dr. med. Patrizio Merloni (Chefarzt der Klinik für Innere Medizin )

Information and services of the department

Number of cases

Number of inpatient cases: 4.780

Staffing

Doctors m/f (including affiliated doctors): 25,10

Nursing staff: 91,40

Specialist expertise and further training

Medical expertiseSpecialist training and additional training
Nursing expertiseFurther education / academic degrees and additional qualifications

Medical service offering with case numbers

Top 10 illnesses

Illness	Number of cases
Other disorders of urinary system - Urinary tract infection site not specified (N39.0)	325
Syncope and collapse (R55)	172
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	166
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	159
Heart failure (I50.01)	136
Volume depletion (E86)	128
Pneumonia organism unspecified - Lobar pneumonia unspecified organism (J18.1)	118
Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin (A09.9)	112
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	100
Other and unspecified infectious diseases (B99)	86

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	1.914
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	792
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	788
(9-984.7)	620
(9-984.8)	557
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	497
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	451
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	409
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	409
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	379

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

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
71	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*
54	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
17	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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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Der wissenschaftliche Output der Augenklinik umfasst für das Berichtsjahr 2023: 24 Publikationen in Peer Review Journals, Summe Impact Factor: 50,8, Buchkapitel 2x
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Lehraufträge Radiologie/Nuklearmedizin
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Das Krankenhaus Sulzbach ist akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der medizinischen Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes und bildet in diesem Rahmen Studenten im praktischen Jahr aus (Famulatur/PJ). Wöchentlicher Unterricht, Summer School einmal im Jahr
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Saarländ. Myokardinfarktregister (Innere), Augenklinik: Uni Bonn, Dt. Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Uni Tübingen, Uni Homburg, Uni Hamburg Eppendorf, Leibniz Institut für Neue Materialien (INM) Saarbrücken, sowie weitere Projekte. Urologie: Zusammenarbeit mit Hochschulen
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Lehrbeauftragung für PJ-Studenten an der Universität des Saarlandes (Innere Medizin) Lehraufträge Universität Tübingen, Universität Bonn (Augenklinik), Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Radiologie). Weiterhin Lehraufträge in der Chirurgie, Neurologie und Anästhesie
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Augenklinik: Phase III: - FOCUS - Velodrom - PORTAL - SANDCAT Neurologie: Revision Phase III, Lotus Studie, multizentrische Patientenregister: Nemos Register, DMSG
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Augenklinik: Phase IV BLUE SKY Galtos Intercept NIS Star Life TES-RD TOFU nach MPG Primavera Pixium Investigator initiated study OCTIVOM (Faricimab real life mit KI-Flüssigkeitsquantifizierung) Ebenso werden uni-/multizentrische Studien in der Urologie durchgeführt.
Doctoral supervision	Doktorandenbetreuung insbesondere in der Augenklinik. Weiterhin Doktorandenbetreuung in Chirurgie und Urologie, Radiologie (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Augenklinik: Phase I: - PRIMAvera (Zulassungsstudie Medizinprodukt) Phase II: - REVISION (Arzneimittelstudie in Kooperation mit der Neurologie) Innere: Teilnahme am Saarländischen Myokardinfektregister

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)