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BOOKMAN
EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
®
The PDR
Family Guide to
®
Prescription Drugs
USER’S GUIDE
CDR-2041
19
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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 Before you start using this book, you The red, green, yellow, and blue keys may want to view a demonstration of on the top row of the BOOKMAN what it can do. keyboard change their functions ac- cording to which book you’re currently If no book card is installed in your using. BOOKMAN, the demonstration au- If you’re using the built-in book, the tomatically appears the first time that color keys function as labeled on the you turn on the unit. To stop
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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 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 drug name wh
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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 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 and press or to I 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 topi
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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 DN from A to Z. 5. Use or to scroll down. 6. Use BACK to back up through 1. Press . CLEAR the menu. 2. Use the arrow keys to high- 7. Press when done. light Index. CLEAR 3. Start typing an index entry. Where in the Book Are You? For example, type warts. When you’re reading a drug pro- file, health overview, or medical safety tip, you
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Searching for Words Searching for Words first match (i.e., occurrence). Word searches let you look up al- 4. Press to see the first match. ENTER most any word or phrase occurring in this book. You can search for up to six words at a time. But you cannot search for DN 5. Hold I and press repeat- short, common words such as the edly to see the Outline and is, or for certain common medi- Locations of the next matches. cal words such as drug or doctor. 6. Press to see a match. ENTER After a word
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Searching for Words Highlighting Search Words 9. To clear your search, press You can also search for words by SEARCH or . CLEAR highlighting a word in a drug profile, health overview, or medical safety 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 highlight a cor
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Sending Words Highlighting Search Words Between Books edly to see the Outline Loca- This BOOKMAN book card can send tions of the next matches. words to and receive words from cer- 8. Press to see the tain other BOOKMAN books. MENU matches on the menus. To send or receive words between 9. Press CLEAR when done. books, you must install a book card in your BOOKMAN. In addition, the in- Reading Cross-references stalled book card(s) and/or its built-in When you search for a drug name book must be
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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 CLEAR and then press 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 regis
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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 Function keys 2 Drugs cau
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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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