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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) 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.



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