The Journal of the American College of Cardiology

In his role as the CEO of Valley Surgery Center, LLC, Rajan Bhatt combines his experience as a physician with his business administration skills to operate a comprehensive facility. Through membership in professional groups like the American College of Cardiology, Rajan Bhatt stays current on developments in the field. The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) strives to inform an international readership on all aspects of cardiology.

The JACC’s main arm consists of an online, open access edition. The JACC publishes about one issue per week. Issues typically contain articles about concluded clinical studies and analyses of salient topics for that week, alongside sections highlighting either established or new cardiologists. Alongside prescheduled editorial comments on each issue’s articles, the editorial board sometimes releases a supplemental issue, to home in on one topic.

To accommodate international readers, the JACC also publishes editions in Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese. Each tailors its content to its international audience, while retaining the peer-reviewed articles and editorial commentary from the English version. The Chinese edition of the JACC differs in that its print version is released six times per year.

Journals Published by SNMMI

As the CEO of both Spectrum Dermatology (now part of Pinnacle Dermatology) and Valley Surgery Center, Rajan Bhatt guides the Arizona organizations in providing quality patient care. Rajan Bhatt belongs to professional organizations including the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). SNMMI publishes a variety of journals catering to various facets of its membership.

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, published as a yearly volume split into monthly issues, informs physicians and non-physicians on developments in the field. Examples of article content include research study results and explanations of developing technologies and trends.

Molecular Imaging, meanwhile, covers techniques like ultrasound. It is published quarterly and is an open access journal. In 2021, Molecular Imaging switched to ongoing article releases, rather than scheduled volumes and issues.

Published quarterly online and in print, the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technologies (JNMT) publishes articles and industry updates about the technology used in nuclear medicine. The only publication of its kind, JNMT ensures users of the technology stay up to date on relevant regulations and licenses needed to practice, alongside more traditional articles on clinical studies and retrospectives.

Anesthesia Types

A physician knowledgeable in multiple specialties, Rajan Bhatt is the CEO and founder of Valley Surgery Center, LLC. Harnessing his medical experience and business administration skills, Rajan Bhatt leads the staff’s efforts to customize each procedure to suit patients’ needs, including picking the anesthesia type that will minimize pain and put the patient at ease.

Anesthetic types differ by administration method, the amount of pain they block, and a patient’s level of awareness during surgery. Local anesthetics, used during certain dental procedures like filling cavities, only block pain at the surgical site. The physician performing the procedure applies it topically or via injection. A patient is usually fully awake during local anesthetic use.

More powerful anesthetics, administered by a dedicated anesthesiologist, affect a patient’s state of consciousness and block pain by influencing nerve clusters. Some nerve blockers prevent pain reception and induce numbness in the arm or leg, while regional anesthetics block nerves sending signals to the torso. Sedation levels can vary from mild (where a patient feels relaxed but can respond to questions) and moderate (when a patient sleeps but can wake up easily) to deep (where a patient sleeps deeply and may not remember their surgery completely). General anesthesia, employed during major surgery, especially on the brain and heart, blocks all pain and induces complete unconsciousness, so the patient does not remember the surgery.