Illness	Number of cases
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	488
Pain in throat and chest (R07.3)	308
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	269
Other forms of angina pectoris (I20.8)	246
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	232
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.14)	229
Paroxysmal tachycardia - Supraventricular tachycardia (I47.1)	121
Abnormalities of breathing (R06.0)	116
Acute myocardial infarction - Non-ST elevation NSTEMI myocardial infarction (I21.4)	114
Hypotension - Orthostatic hypotension (I95.1)	113

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Examination of the left side of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-275.0)	1.018
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	867
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	826
Radio-controlled cardiological telemetry (8-933)	686
(9-984.7)	606
(9-984.8)	555
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	471
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart without a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-266.0)	427
Treatment of the heart and/or the coronary arteries with access through a tube (catheter) along the blood vessels (8-837.00)	294
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart with a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery - electrophysiological investigation (1-265.4)	289

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0300 , 0100

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ25
CQ01

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

Number	Group
73	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*
42	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
27	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	Theorie: Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe in Mönchengladbach Praxis: Radiologische Klinik des St. Bernhard Hospitals, Nuklearmedizinische Gemeinschaftspraxis in Duisburg sowie die Gemeinschaftspraxis für Strahlentherapie in Duisburg/Moers
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)