Page 2 - License Agreement
20 READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMANELECTRONIC BOOK.YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK DEEMS THAT YOUACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITHTHESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RE-CEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMANELE...
Page 3 - Contents; PDR
1 Contents Welcome to the world of BOOK-MAN ® ! Using your new PDR ® Family Guide to Prescription Drugs ® book card, you can find important informa-tion about more than 850 brandname and generic drugs. You can also read 23 informativehealth overviews, plus useful medicalsafety tips. To learn how to ...
Page 4 - Key Guide; Color Keys; Direction Keys; Key Combinations
2 Key Guide Color Keys DRUG (red) Displays the Drugs menu. HEALTH (green) Displays the Health Overviews menu. T I P S (yellow) Displays the Medi- cal Safety Tips menu. SEARCH (blue) Displays and clears the word search screen. Function Keys BACK Backs up to the previous screen. CAP Shifts keys to typ...
Page 5 - Quick Keys; Installing the Batteries; When the batteries lose
3 Key Guide (cont’d.) Quick Keys 2 D Go to the Dosage section. E Go to the Side Effects section. F Go to the Most Important Fact section. G Go to the General section. I Go to the Food and Drug Interac- tions section. N Go to the Do Not Take If section. O Go to the Overdosage section. P Go to the Pre...
Page 6 - Selecting a Book; Press or to highlight a; Never install or remove a; Installing a Book Card; Removing a Book Card
4 Selecting a Book If you’ve installed a book card in yourBOOKMAN, you can select whichbook you want to use. Follow thesesteps. 1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.2. Press CARD . 3. Press or to highlight a book symbol. 4. Press ENTER to select it. Warning: Never install or remove a book card when your BOOKMAN ...
Page 7 - Viewing a Demonstration; Help is Always at Hand; Press or; Tutorial from; Using the Color Keys; and then select
5 Viewing a Demonstration ➤ Help is Always at Hand You can read a help message at vir-tually any screen by pressing HELP . Press or DN to read the mes- sage. Press BACK to exit it. To read a tutorial about how touse this book, select Tutorial from the Setup menu. Using the Color Keys The red, green,...
Page 8 - Looking up a Drug; Or highlight; Tylenol; To undo a letter, press; This is the drug profile for; Changing the Settings; Shutoff; A slanted arrow indicates a submenu.
6 Looking up a Drug If you know the brand or genericname of a drug, here’s how to find itsdrug profile. 1. Press DRUG (the red key). Or highlight Drugs on the Con- tents menu and then press ENTER . 2. Type a brand or generic drug name. For example, type Tylenol . To undo a letter, press BACK . 3. Wh...
Page 9 - Reading a Drug Profile; to see the corrections.; to see its drug profile.
7 Reading a Drug Profile Drug profiles provide detailed informa-tion about prescriptions, dosage, sideeffects, drug interactions, and more.Follow this example to learn how toread a drug profile. 1. Go to the start of the drug pro- file for Tylenol . To learn how, read “Looking up aDrug.” 2. Use or t...
Page 10 - Coping with; To highlight a topic, press or; to go to the; Reading Health Overviews; Use these Quick keys to go a
8 You can read health overviews cov-ering topics such as “Coping withArthritis” and “Handling FamiliarChildhood Infections.” 1. Press HEALTH (the green key). Or highlight Health Overviews on the Contents menu and thenpress ENTER . 2. Highlight a topic (for ex- ample, Coping with Arthritis ). To high...
Page 11 - Poison Control; Middle Atlantic; National Capital Poison; Reading Medical; menus, as well as some Index
9 You can also read medical safety tipsabout Poison Control Centers, safemedication use, alcohol- or sugar-free drugs, drugs that cause a reac-tion to sunlight, and recommendedvaccinations. 1. Press T I P S (the yellow key). Or highlight Med. Safety Tips on the Contents menu and then press ENTER . 2...
Page 12 - Using the Index; Index; back to the text, press
10 Using the Index Using the Index, you can look up drugs,symptoms, diseases, treatments, andother medical terms and topics, listedfrom A to Z. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Use the arrow keys to high- light Index . 3. Start typing an index entry. For example, type warts . 4. When the entry is high- lighted, ...
Page 13 - Searching for Words; Type your search words; strep throat
11 Searching for Words first match (i.e., occurrence). 4. Press ENTER to see the first match. 5. Hold ✩ and press DN repeat- edly to see the OutlineLocations of the next matches. 6. Press ENTER to see a match. If a cross-reference symbol ( ) appears, press ENTER and then the arrow keys to highlight ...
Page 14 - Highlighting Search Words; Alcohol-free Products; meta; and press
12 Highlighting Search Words You can also search for words byhighlighting a word in a drug profile,health overview, or medical safetytip. Try this example. 1. Press T I P S (the yellow key). 2. Select Alcohol-free Products and then select Analgesics . To learn how, read “ReadingMedical Safety Tips.”...
Page 15 - and then press the; Sending Words; to start the highlight.
13 This BOOKMAN book card can sendwords to and receive words from cer-tain other BOOKMAN books.To send or receive words betweenbooks, you must install a book card inyour BOOKMAN. In addition, the in-stalled book card(s) and/or its built-inbook must be able to send or receivewords. To learn if a book...
Page 16 - BOOKMAN Model CDR-440; Troubleshooting Tips; and then press; gently; press; Resetting Your BOOKMAN
14 BOOKMAN Model CDR-440 © 1996 Franklin Electronic Publisher, Inc.,Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 U.S. All rightsreserved.© 1995 by Medical Economics, Inc. Allrights reserved.PDR and Family Guide to PrescriptionDrugs are registered trademarks of Medi-cal Economics, Inc.Tylenol is a registered trademark ...
Page 17 - Limited Warranty
15 Index ?* key 10Alcohol-free drugs 9, 12Arrows flashing 8slanted 6 Asterisk (for finding words) 12Auto-resume feature 4Automatic shutoff 6Batteries, installing 3Book cards installing 4removing 4 BOOKMAN resetting 14troubleshooting tips 14 Breastfeeding information 8Capital letters, typing 11CARD k...
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