Illness	Number of cases
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	126
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	119
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	69
Other noninfective gastroenteritis and colitis - Noninfective gastroenteritis and colitis unspecified (K52.9)	62
Acute appendicitis (K35.8)	47
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	41
Diverticular disease of intestine (K57.22)	34
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	33
Other functional intestinal disorders - Other specified functional intestinal disorders (K59.8)	33
Ventral hernia - Incisional hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K43.2)	30

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	259
(8-831.00)	220
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)	208
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.43)	123
(9-984.7)	109
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	104
Computed tomography of the abdomen with contrast medium (3-225)	100
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.33)	94
(9-984.8)	91
Other operations on the intestine (5-469.20)	88

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

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
85	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*
85	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
71	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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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	weitere Ergänzungen siehe Kapitel A3 "Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus"
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Lehrbeauftragung an der Universität zu Köln und an der Universität Marburg zu Neurologischen Schwerpunkten
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Lehrauftrag/Lehrbeauftragung für Chirurgie, Anästhesie, Intensiv- & Notfallmedizin an der Uniklinik RWTH Aachen und der Medizinischen Fakultät der RWTH Aachen.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	diese Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach angeboten.
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	diese Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach angeboten.
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	diese Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach angeboten.
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	diese praktische Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der Malteser-Schule Aachen und dem NOBIZ in Düren angeboten.
HB10	Midwife (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung der Studentinnen der Hebammenwissenschaft in Kooperation mit der RWTH Aachen
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)