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Klinikum Altmühlfranken Weißenburg

Viszeral-, Thoraxchirurgie und Proktologie

With emergency ambulance

Information and services of the department

Number of cases

Number of inpatient cases: 2.227

Staffing

Doctors m/f (including affiliated doctors): 16,80

Nursing staff: 33,73

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
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	135
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	86
Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.20)	85
Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia (K56.4)	75
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	71
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	66
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	65
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	59
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	57
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	40

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	547
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	244
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	202
Temporary covering of soft tissue injuries with skin or artificial skin (5-916.a0)	186
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	170
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	169
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	167
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	163
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)	144
(9-984.7)	134

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

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 participation

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

Number	Group
27	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*
16	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
16	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)	Famulaturen, Klinikstudent (finanzielle Förderung ab dem 5. Semester). Die Region Altmühlfranken ist Partner im Programm „Beste Landpartie Allgemeinmedizin“ (BeLA Nord). Das Klinikum Altmühlfranken ist als Teil des Projekts akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Erlangen.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)	in Kooperation mit der Berufsfachschule
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Kooperation mit der Berufsfachschule für Pflege und Altenpflegehilfe Weißenburg
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	in Kooperation mit Klinikum Fürth