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Abstract:The Standards and Calibration Laboratory (SCL) in Hong Kong has set up a calibration facility for defibrillators and defibrillator analyzers. Defibrillators are medical devices designed to resume the normal heart pulse of a patient by discharging energy pulses to a person who is suffering from an emergency cardiac attack. They are commonly used in hospitals and medical institutes. At the SCL, the energy delivered by a defibrillator is measured using a high quality digital sampling system. The system includes a high voltage divider, a sampling voltmeter, an impedance analyzer, and a control computer. The sampled voltage waveform is digitally processed to derive the delivered energy. The system can also be used to check the accuracy of a defibrillator analyzer. The sampling system and its signal processing are described in this paper. To ensure the accuracy of the sampling system, it is calibrated against the laboratory's voltage and time reference standards. A standard waveform with calculable ene...

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