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BOOKMAN
EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
®
The PDR
Family Guide to
®
Prescription Drugs
Electronic Publishers
USER’S GUIDE
CDR-440
18
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License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RE- CEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Fra
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Contents Welcome to the world of BOOK- You can also read 23 informative ® ® MAN ! Using your new PDR Family health overviews, plus useful medical ® Guide to Prescription Drugs book safety tips. To learn how to use this card, you can find important informa- electronic book, simply follow the tion about more than 850 brand steps in this User’s Guide. name and generic drugs. Key Guide ...................................................................... 2 Installing the Batteries ................
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Key Guide ON/OFF Turns your BOOKMAN on or off. Color Keys ?* At a menu, displays the full title DRUG (red) Displays the Drugs of an item. At text, displays the menu. Outline Location. Shifted, types HEALTH (green) Displays the Health an asterisk to stand for a series Overviews menu. of letters in a word. (yellow) Displays the Medi- TIPS Direction Keys cal Safety Tips menu. Scroll line by line. SEARCH (blue) Displays and clears the word search screen. DN Scroll screen by screen. UP Page down. SP
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Key Guide (cont’d.) Installing the Batteries 2 Quick Keys Your BOOKMAN 440 model re- quires two CR2032, 3-volt batteries. D Go to the Dosage section. Here is how to install or replace Go to the Side Effects section. E them. Go to the Most Important Fact section. F Warning: When the batteries lose Go to the General section. G power or are removed from your Go to the Food and Drug Interac- BOOKMAN, information that you en- I tions section. tered in its built-in book and in an in- stalled book card
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Installing a Book Card Selecting a Book Warning: Never install or remove a If you’ve installed a book card in your book card when your BOOKMAN is BOOKMAN, you can select which turned on. If you do, information that book you want to use. Follow these you’ve entered in its built-in book, as steps. well as in any other installed book 1. Turn your BOOKMAN on. cards, will be erased. 2. Press . CARD 1. Turn your BOOKMAN off. 2. Turn your BOOKMAN over. 3. Align the tabs of the book card with the notche
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Using the Color Keys Viewing a Demonstration The red, green, yellow, and blue keys You may want to see a brief demon- on the top row of the BOOKMAN stration of how to use this book. Sim- keyboard change their functions ac- ply install the book card and then cording to which book you’re currently follow these steps. using. 1. Press . CLEAR If you’re using the built-in book, the 2. Use the arrow keys to color keys function as labeled on the highlight the Setup menu. BOOKMAN keyboard. If you’re usi
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Changing the Settings Looking up a Drug Using the Setup menu, you can adjust If you know the brand or generic the type size, shutoff time, and screen name of a drug, here’s how to find its contrast. drug profile. DRUG 1. Press (the red key). The type size sets how large the char- acters appear on screen. The shutoff Or highlight Drugs on the Con- time sets how long your BOOKMAN tents menu and then press stays on if you forget to turn it off. The ENTER . screen contrast sets how light or dark 2.
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Looking up a Drug Reading a Drug Profile You can also read medical safety tips about Poison Control Centers, safe medication use, alcohol- or sugar- free drugs, drugs that cause a reac- DN 6. Use or to scroll down. tion to sunlight, and recommended DN 7. Hold I and press or to UP vaccinations. go to the next or previous section. TIPS 1. Press (the yellow key). Or highlight Med. Safety Tips on the Contents menu and then press . ENTER 8. Press when done. CLEAR 2. Highlight a topic (for ex- am
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Reading a Drug Profile Reading Health Overviews 5. Use these Quick keys to go a You can read health overviews cov- section of the profile: ering topics such as “Coping with To go to... Press... Arthritis” and “Handling Familiar Childhood Infections.” General G Prescribed For HEALTH P 1. Press (the green key). Most Important Fact F Or highlight Health Overviews on the Contents menu and then How to Take T press ENTER . Side Effects E 2. Highlight a topic (for ex- Do Not Take If N ample, Copin
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Reading Medical Reading Health Overviews Safety Tips DN 5. Use or to scroll down. Drug profiles provide detailed informa- tion about prescriptions, dosage, side To learn more ways to read a drug effects, drug interactions, and more. profile, see “Reading a Drug Profile.” Follow this example to learn how to 6. Press CLEAR when done. read a drug profile. 1. Go to the start of the drug pro- file for Tylenol. If You Misspell a Drug Name To learn how, read “Looking up a Drug.” If you misspell a
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Reading Medical Safety Tips Using the Index Using the Index, you can look up drugs, symptoms, diseases, treatments, and other medical terms and topics, listed from A to Z. DN 5. Use or to scroll down. 1. Press . CLEAR 6. Use to back up through BACK the menu. 2. Use the arrow keys to high- light Index. 7. Press when done. CLEAR 3. Start typing an index entry. For example, type warts. Where in the Book Are You? When you’re reading a drug pro- file, health overview, or medical safety tip, yo
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Searching for Words Searching for Words Word searches let you look up al- first match (i.e., occurrence). most any word or phrase occurring 4. Press to see the first match. ENTER in this book. You can search for up to six words at a time. But you cannot search for short, common words such as the 5. Hold I and press repeat- and is, or for certain common medi- edly to see the Outline cal words such as drug or doctor. Locations of the next matches. After a word search, only items with 6. Press
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Searching for Words Highlighting Search Words press . ENTER You can also search for words by highlighting a word in a drug profile, 9. To clear your search, press SEARCH or . health overview, or medical safety CLEAR tip. Try this example. If You Misspell a Search Word TIPS 1. Press (the yellow key). If you enter a misspelled search 2. Select Alcohol-free Products word, a list of corrections appears. and then select Analgesics. To learn how, read “Reading Medical Safety Tips.” Use to h
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Looking Up Words in Highlighting Search Words Other Books edly to see the Outline Loca- This BOOKMAN book can look up tions of the next matches. words in and from certain other 8. Press to see the MENU BOOKMAN books. matches on the menus. To look up words in or from other 9. Press CLEAR when done. books, you must first install at least one book card in your BOOKMAN. Highlighting Cross-references In addition, the installed book card(s) must themselves be able to look up When you search for a
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Copyrights, Patents, Resetting Your BOOKMAN and Trademarks BOOKMAN Model CDR-440 If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to re- © 1996 Franklin Electronic Publisher, Inc., spond, or if its screen performs errati- Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 U.S. All rights cally, first press and then press CLEAR reserved. ON/OFF twice. If nothing happens, follow © 1995 by Medical Economics, Inc. All the steps below. rights reserved. PDR and Family Guide to Prescription Warning: Pressing the reset button with Drugs are regi
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Limited Warranty (U.S. only) Index FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free from ?* key 10 defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it Alcohol-free drugs 9, 12 without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you Arrows made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., One Franklin Plaza, Burlington, New Jersey 08016-4907, within
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Index Demonstration 5 most important fact about a drug 8 Direction keys 2 Outline Location of text 10 overdosage 8 Do Not Take If information 8 Poison Control Centers 9 Dosage 7 pregnancy information 8 Drug profiles prescription information 8 finding recommended vaccinations 9 using the Drugs menu 6 side effects 8 using the Index 10 special warnings 8 using word searches 11 sugar-free drugs 9 reading 7 Food and drug interactions 8 using Quick keys 7 Drugs causing a reaction t
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Index Health Overviews 9 Selecting Index 10 books 4 Med. Safety Tips 9 settings 6 Misspellings, correcting Shutoff time 6 drug names 7 Side effects 8 search words 12 Slanted arrows 6 Most Important Fact information 8 Special warnings 8 Outline Location STAR+BACK 2 of text 10 STAR+CARD 13 of word search matches 11 STAR+ENTER 7 Overdosage 8 Sugar-free drugs 9 Poison Control Centers 9 Troubleshooting tips 14 Pregnancy information 8 Tutorial 5 Prescription information 8 Type
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BOOKMAN EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK ® The PDR Family Guide to ® Prescription Drugs Electronic Publishers USER’S GUIDE CDR-440 18
