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.
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