Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	98
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	81
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	54
Obesity - Other obesity - Obesity grade III WHO in patients 18 years and older body mass index BMI from 40 to below 50 (E66.86)	48
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	30
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	27
Erysipelas (A46)	19
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	18
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene recurrent (K40.91)	16
Abdominal and pelvic pain (R10.3)	16

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	154
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.32)	128
(8-831.00)	106
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.63)	91
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation with measurement of the pressure in the superior vena cava (central venous pressure) (8-931.0)	88
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	74
Surgical connection between the stomach and small intestine bypassing the duodenum, without removing the stomach (5-445.41)	59
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	50
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a3)	48
Procedure for dialysing the blood outside the body with removal of the poison over a concentration gradient - dialysis (8-854.2)	45

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1500

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

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”

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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)