Illness	Number of cases
Heart failure (I50.01)	185
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	170
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	164
Pain in throat and chest - Precordial pain (R07.2)	86
Syncope and collapse (R55)	86
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	45
Other forms of angina pectoris (I20.8)	39
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Typical atrial flutter (I48.3)	33
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	30
Hypertensive heart disease without heart failure (I11.91)	28

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Radio-controlled cardiological telemetry (8-933)	576
(9-984.7)	262
Comprehensive ultrasound examination of the heart (echocardiography) by attaching the ultrasound transponder to the chest wall (transthoracic) during physical exercise (3-031)	220
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	213
Procedure for dialysing the blood outside the body with removal of the poison over a concentration gradient - dialysis (8-854.2)	175
(9-984.8)	147
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	146
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	144
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)	120
Treatment procedure to maintain and encourage practical everyday and social skills - psychosocial intervention (9-401.22)	117

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 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
51	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*
51	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
51	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)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	in Kooperation mit der Ausbildungsstätte St. Barbara-Klinik in Hamm Heessen
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Die Canisius Campus Dortmund gGmbH ist eine staatlich anerkannte Pflegeschule und gehört ebenfalls zur Kath. St. Paulus GmbH. Sie bildet für die Krankenhäuser der Kath. St. Paulus Gesellschaft, dazu gehört auch das St. Christophorus Krankenhaus, Fachpersonal in der Pflege aus.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)