Brian Arthur Sellick

Brian Arthur Sellick
Born (1918-06-13)13 June 1918
Surrey, United Kingdom.
Died 13 July 1996(1996-07-13) (aged 78)
London, United Kingdom.
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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