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https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/2/766/294.2.extract.jpg
I guessed correctly that it was low blood pressure, straight away :)
Without potassium salts then, the heart rate would have continued to drop until it stopped beating. But their medicine working means that it was the heart pumping too strongly due to the low blood pressure and is how I picked.up on the issue. That there wasn't enough blood in there so it best faster - also, because of this, it was probably the RIGHT (left) side, lower chamber of the heart that was the issue in my opinion