Brian Arthur Sellick
Brian Arthur Sellick | |
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Born |
Surrey, United Kingdom. | 13 June 1918
Died |
13 July 1996 78) London, United Kingdom. | (aged
Nationality | British |
Fields | anaesthetist |
Brian Arthur Sellick (1918–1996)[1][2] was a British anesthesiologist.[3] He was known for cricoid pressure, he described in 1961.[4] This manoeuvre is named after him.
Sellick worked as anesthesiologist at Middlesex Hospital. There he demonstrated the efficacy of his invention using a cadaver with full stomach placed in the Trendelenburg position.[3]
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