A nurse is teaching a nursing student about the two classes of adrenergic agonist drugs. Which statement by the nursing student indicates understanding of the teaching?
a. "Catecholamines may be given orally."
b. "Catecholamines often require continuous infusion to be effective."
c. "Noncatecholamines do not cross the blood-brain barrier."
d. "Noncatecholamines undergo rapid de-gradation by monoamine oxidase."
B
Catecholamines undergo rapid degradation by monoamine oxidase (MAO) and cate-chol-O-methyltransferase (COMT). Consequently, they have a brief duration of action, and con-tinuous infusion often is required to maintain the drug's effects. Catecholamines cannot be used orally. Catecholamines do not cross the blood-brain barrier; noncatecholamines do. Noncatecho-lamines are not degraded by MAO.
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