Page 2 - License Agreement
18 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; to; Using the Color Keys; press
5 Viewing a Demonstration ➤ Help is Always at Hand You can see an appropriate helpmessage at virtually any screen bypressing HELP . Press or DN to read the message. 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, ...
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 - menus, as well as some Index; Reading a Drug Profile; Poison Control; Middle Atlantic; National Capital Poison
7 ➤ Viewing Complete Menu Items Some topic and section titles on theHealth Overviews and Med. SafetyTips menus, as well as some Index entries, are too long to fit on themenus. To see a complete menuitem title, highlight the item and thenpress ? * . 6. Use or DN to scroll down. 7. Hold ✩ and press DN...
Page 10 - Follow the Arrows; Reading Health Overviews; Coping with; To highlight a topic, press or; to go to the
8 Reading a Drug Profile 5. Use these Quick keys to go a section of the profile: To go to... Press... General G Prescribed For P Most Important Fact F How to Take T Side Effects E Do Not Take If N Special Warnings W Food and Drug Interactions I Use in Pregnancy or Breastfeeding S Dosage D Overdosage...
Page 11 - to see the corrections.; to see its drug profile.; Reading Medical
9 Reading Health Overviews ➤ If You Misspell a Drug Name If you misspell a drug name whiletyping at the Drugs menu, the spell-ing correction mode appears.Type the remainder of the name tothe best of your knowledge. Thenpress ENTER to see the corrections. Then highlight a correction and press ENTER t...
Page 12 - back to the text, press; Using the Index; Index
10 ➤ Where in the Book Are You? When you’re reading a drug pro-file, health overview, or medicalsafety tip, you can view the Out-line Location of the current text bypressing ? * . The Outline Location shows themenu and submenu items for thetext you were reading.To see the higher levels of theOutline...
Page 13 - Searching for Words; Type your search words; strep throat; to see the first match.; light a menu item and then
11 Searching for Words Searching for Words Word searches let you look up al-most any word or phrase occurringin this book.You can search for up to six wordsat a time. But you cannot search forshort, common words such as the and is, or for certain common medi- cal words such as drug or doctor. After ...
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; to start the highlight.; Looking Up Words in
13 This BOOKMAN book can look upwords in and from certain otherBOOKMAN books.To look up words in or from otherbooks, you must first install at leastone book card in your BOOKMAN.In addition, the installed book card(s)must themselves be able to look upwords in or from other books. Tolearn if a book c...
Page 16 - Troubleshooting Tips; Resetting Your BOOKMAN; and then press; gently
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 20 - Electronic Publishers; E X P A N D A B L E E L E C T R O N I C B O O K; OO; USER’S GUIDE; The PDR
Electronic Publishers E X P A N D A B L E E L E C T R O N I C B O O K B OO KMAN 18 USER’S GUIDE CDR-440 ® The PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs ®