Illness	Number of cases
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	68
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	56
Fracture of femur (S72.01)	55
Fracture of femur (S72.11)	48
Fracture of shoulder and upper arm (S42.21)	38
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	30
Fracture of lumbar spine and pelvis (S32.01)	30
Fracture of lumbar spine and pelvis (S32.1)	28
Fracture of forearm (S52.50)	25
Superficial injury of thorax (S20.2)	20

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
(9-984.7)	173
(9-984.8)	156
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)	82
(9-984.9)	63
Surgical reduction of a comminuted fracture in the joint region of a long bone and fixation of the bone fragments using devices such as screws or plates (5-794.k6)	55
Reduction of a fracture or a separated growth cartilage (epiphyseal cartilage) and external fixation of the bone fragments using devices such as screws or plates (5-790.5f)	54
Transfusion of blood, red blood cells or platelets from a donor to a recipient (8-800.c0)	51
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.41)	48
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	41
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.5)	40

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1600

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.	Explanation
CQ06

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

Number	Group
74	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*
74	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
74	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)	Das AKH Viersen ist Lehrkrankenhaus der Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf.
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Wir stellen einen Praxisplatz für die Ausbildung zum/zur ATA zur Verfügung.
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Wir stellen Praxisplätze für die Ausbildung zum/zur OTA zur Verfügung.
HB19	Nursing professionals	Seit 2020 bietet das AKH Viersen die Ausbildung als Pflegefachmann/Pflegefachfrau an. Die Kurse starten im März und im September. Der theoretische Teil der Ausbildung erfolgt an der Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe Viersen GmbH.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Ab 2020 bietet das AKH Viersen die Ausbildung als Pflegefachmann/Pflegefachfrau an. Der theoretische Teil der Ausbildung erfolgt an der Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe Viersen.