Brian Arthur Sellick

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]

See also

• Cricoid pressure
• Rapid sequence induction

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