Illness	Number of cases
Essential primary hypertension (I10.01)	167
Pain in throat and chest (R07.3)	130
Atrial fibrillation and flutter - Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (I48.0)	79
Heart failure (I50.01)	63
Abnormalities of breathing (R06.0)	52
Left ventricular failure unspecified (I50.13)	45
Abnormalities of heart beat - Tachycardia unspecified (R00.0)	39
Other cardiac arrhythmias - Ventricular premature depolarization (I49.3)	35
Atrial fibrillation and flutter (I48.1)	30
Abnormalities of heart beat - Palpitations (R00.2)	26

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Radio-controlled cardiological telemetry (8-933)	137
Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with electric shocks - defibrillation (8-640.0)	12
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart without a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-266.0)	9
Anaesthesia with administration of an anaesthetic into a vein (8-900)	9
(9-984.7)	9
Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) through the oesophagus - TEE (3-052)	7
Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart without a tube (catheter) inserted into the heart via an artery (1-266.1)	0
Comprehensive ultrasound examination of the heart (echocardiography) by attaching the ultrasound transponder to the chest wall (transthoracic) during physical exercise (3-031)	0
Computed tomography (CT) of the chest without contrast medium (3-202)	0
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	0

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Department key: 0103

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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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
10	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*
10	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
10	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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