Practice Question - Defibrillation



Prompt:
Defibrillation is a treatment for cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia that delivers an electrical shock to the heart. The electrical shock allows the sinoatrial node to reestablish the baseline heart rythym.

An 80kg man is shocked with a defibrillator which delivers 6000 volts with a current of 100 amps.

Questions

What is the resistance across the body?
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What amount of energy was delivered by the electrical shock?
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Answers

Note that this question requires you to have memorised the physics formula v=ir. You may also find reading up on defibrillation at the Wikipedia page to be useful

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