‘I ran outside. It wasn’t a seizure, it was death’: Dr Olivia Magno on her interesting weekend
GP and former world-class cricketer Dr Olivia Magno spent 10 years working in some of Australia’s most remote communities
Over the past decade, anyone asking Dr Olivia Magno about her day would be unlikely to hear her utter the word ‘relaxing’.
Take the time she stayed back late in her clinic in West Arnhem Land because she had a “very sick” patient with pneumonia.
“I just couldn’t get his blood pressure up even with fluids, so we did an ECG and troponin. He was infarcting and septic, probably a type 2 because he was just so sick,” she tells 6minutes.
“So we’re trying to support his blood pressure, with a nurse’s help and there’s a guy sitting outside, a young 21-year-old who had just been playing footy, went to the kitchen, got some food and they said he started fitting.
