Patient's information

The department of respiratory medicine and infectious diseases includes 40 beds within the Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt (Augusta hospital in Bochum). More than 1200 patients have been cared for during the accounting year 2007.The ten most frequently treated cases in our department in 2007 were:

1. chronic-obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
   (irreversible airflow limitation due to chronic bronchitis and/or lung emphysema)
2. neoplasm of the chest
   (bronchial, pulmonary, pleural or mediastinal tumours)
3. infections and inflammations of lower respiratory airways or the lung
   (acute or chronic bronchitis, pneumonia)
4. bronchial asthma
   (inflammation or restriction of the respiratory tracts)
5. interstitial pulmonary disease
   (pulmonary tissue diseases e.g. pneumoconiosis)
6. other operational procedures at respiratory organs
   (other operational interventions at the respiratory organs)
7. diseases of respiratory regulation
   (respiration difficulties)
8. cardiac failure and shock
   (heart failure or circulatory shock)
9. tuberculosis
   (lung consumption)
10. sleep apnoea syndrome
    (extended respiratory pauses while sleeping, resulting in fatigue or impairment of performance)

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