“…A similar concept is applied to intravenous anesthetic agents and is known as the median effective concentration, the EC 50 (Smith et al, 1994). This is a very practical clinical concept because it tends to predict the concentrations of propofol both in the plasma and in the effect site simulated by different pharmacokinetic models (White and Kenny, 1990;Shafer and Gregg, 1992;Smith et al, 1994). Both the MAC for volatile anesthetics and median effect site concentrations for intravenous anesthetics can be expressed by a variety of clinical end-points such as tracheal intubation, extubation, body movement, awareness, recall, or hemodynamic responses.…”