  Current heavy-ion collision experiments might lead to the discovery of a
first-order chiral symmetry breaking phase-transition line, ending in a
second-order critical point. Nevertheless, the extraction of information about
the equilibrium thermodynamic properties of baryonic matter from the highly
dynamic, small, noisy and fluctuating environment formed in such collisions is
an extremely challenging task. We address some of the limitations present in
the experimental search for the QCD critical point.
