Patent ID: 8359095

Claim:
A medical system comprising: an intracorporeally implantable medical device containing a pulse generator configured to emit cardiac stimulation pulses for pacing the heart of the patient, a control unit that controls operation of said pulse generator according to settings of said control unit, and an implantable device communication unit connected at least to said control unit; an extracorporeal programmer comprising a programmer control unit and a programmer communication unit; extracorporeal stress equipment configured to interact with said patient to exert a physiological stress on said patient according to predetermined stress equipment workload settings, and a stress equipment communication unit that communicates with said programmer communication unit; said control unit of said programmer being configured to start a patient test session, including initiating an automatic setting determination procedure to set said stress equipment workload settings, by starting operation of said stress equipment; said control unit of said programmer being configured to communicate said predetermined stress equipment workload settings to said control unit of said implantable medical device via said implantable device communication unit and said programmer communication unit; said implantable medical device further comprising a sensor configured to interact with the patient to generate a sensor signal representing a physiological parameter of the patient that is influenced by said stress equipment; and said control unit of said implantable medical device being configured to identify a characteristic of said sensor value for each workload setting.