The nurse must tell a client taking a drug that acts by inhibiting MAO to avoid certain foods and
drugs or risk
a. hypotensive shock.
b. hypertensive crisis.
c. cardiac dysrhythmia.
d. cardiogenic shock.
ANS: B
Clients taking MAO inhibiting drugs must be on a tyramine-free diet to prevent hypertensive crisis.
In the presence of MAO inhibitors, tyramine is not destroyed by the liver and in high levels produces
intense vasoconstriction, resulting in elevated blood pressure.
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