Brian Arthur Sellick (1918–1996) was a British

anaesthetist Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, a ...

. He was known for cricoid pressure, he described in 1961. This manoeuvre is named after him. Sellick worked as an anaesthetist at

Middlesex Hospital Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England. First opened as the Middlesex Infirmary in 1745 on Windmill Street, it was moved in 1757 to Mortimer Street where it remained until it was finally clos ...

. There he demonstrated the efficacy of his invention using a cadaver with full stomach placed in the

Trendelenburg position In the Trendelenburg position (), the body is supine position, lain supine, or flat on the back on a 15–30 degree incline with the feet elevated above the head. The reverse Trendelenburg position, similarly, places the body supine on an inclin ...

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1918 births 1996 deaths British anaesthetists {{UK-med-bio-stub

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