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Elbe-Elster Klinikum GmbH Krankenhaus Elsterwerda

Chirurgie Elsterwerda

With emergency ambulance

Information and services of the department

Number of cases

Number of inpatient cases: 1.674

Staffing

Doctors m/f (including affiliated doctors): 8,97

Nursing staff: 34,94

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
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	216
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	178
Fracture of femur (S72.01)	47
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	46
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	40
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	38
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	35
Fracture of femur (S72.11)	34
Fracture of forearm (S52.51)	32
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	19

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
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)	517
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	213
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	172
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	161
(9-984.7)	159
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	124
Computed tomography (CT) of the musculoskeletal system without contrast medium (3-205)	100
(9-984.8)	95
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	88
Transfusion of blood, red blood cells or platelets from a donor to a recipient (8-800.c0)	85

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

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
25	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*
19	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
18	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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