Pediatrics

One of the patients in paediatric ICU has developed VF and the staff have staed CPR. You are the physician on call. You want to try DC shock so as to reve to it to normal rhythm. What is the energy you would use in this scenario? The child is 3 years old, weight - 15 kg, SPO2 - 88, BP unrecordable, RR - 40/minute.