Illness	Number of cases
Pyothorax without fistula (J86.9)	30
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.1)	26
Secondary malignant neoplasm of respiratory and digestive organs - Secondary malignant neoplasm of pleura (C78.2)	24
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.3)	18
Pleural effusion not elsewhere classified (J90)	14
Secondary malignant neoplasm of respiratory and digestive organs (C78.0)	13
3 Pneumothorax (J93.1)	10
Bacterial pneumonia not elsewhere classified - Unspecified bacterial pneumonia (J15.9)	9
Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of middle ear and respiratory and intrathoracic organs - Neoplasm of uncertain behavior of trachea bronchus and lung (D38.1)	6
Malignant neoplasm of heart mediastinum and pleura - Malignant neoplasm of pleura (C38.4)	5

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment by lavage of the lung or the cavity between the lung and ribs (8-173.10)	129
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.01)	126
Division of adhesions between the lungs and chest wall - lysis of adhesions (5-333.1)	119
Examination of the chest or mediastinum by endoscopy (1-691.0)	99
Insertion of a small tube (cannula) or catheter into the space between the lungs and ribs for the drainage of fluid (8-144.0)	93
Examination of the trachea and the bronchi by endoscopy (1-620.00)	81
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)	69
Surgical removal of the pleura (5-344.40)	61
Surgical incision into the chest wall or pleura (5-340.b)	60
(5-98c.1)	53

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1520

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

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ31

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

Number	Group
66	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*
24	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
24	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Nur im Rahmen der praktischen Einsätze.
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)