Brian Arthur Sellick | |
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Born |
Surrey, United Kingdom. |
13 June 1918
Died | 13 July 1996 London, United Kingdom. |
(aged 78)
Nationality | British |
Fields | anaesthetist |
Brian Arthur Sellick (1918–1996) was a British anesthesiologist. He was known for cricoid pressure, he described in 1961. 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.