Implantable cardiac pacemakers are currently powered by mercury batteries. These cells have approximately 50-percent reliability for 2-year operation in this application. The patient has an expected lifetime of five and one-half years. Thus the cardiac pacemaker must be replaced several times during the patient's lifetime.
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