**2. General outlook**

By providing therapists, trainers or commanders of first responder units with a multi – parameter pattern of stress hormone effects and their statistics within minutes, an objective support of decisions which range from selection of specific treatments, adaptation of training efforts or educated guesses about success chances of teams to detection of team *outliers* is provided.

Still, the decision making responsibility of the physician, the trainer or the commander remains untouched. On the one hand, the intricate pattern of the interwoven parameters provides a rather sensitive metabolic picture, which can be broadened by additional correlations with sociological and psychological scores (for which free spaces in our correlation tables are already provided). But the same multi parametric intricacy prohibits – at least at the moment – a mathematical overall calculation including all changing parameters according to their momentary importance. It turned out, that pure multiple regressions of the bulk of all data are not stable enough, so that factor analyses have to be applied in advance. Some smaller problems could be already solved in this way, but generally the best way to use our tool at the moment is a one days course in interpretation with lots of practical applications and some theoretical background, which in nearly all cases enables the user to proceed successfully on her or his own.
