Franklin BOOKMAN CDR-2041 manuale d’uso

19  EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK B O O K M A N   USER ’S GUIDE CDR-2041 ® T he PDR F amil y G uide to P rescr iption Dr ugs ®[...]

20 READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK DEEMS THA T YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MA Y RETURN THIS P ACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RE- CEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL[...]

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 brand name and generic drugs. Y ou can also read 23 informative health overviews, plus useful medical safety tips. T o lear n how to use this electronic book, simply follow[...]

2 Key Guide Color Keys DRUG (red) Displays the Drugs menu. HEALTH (green) Displays the Health Overviews menu. TIPS (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 type capitals and punctuation. CARD Exits the selected b[...]

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 Prescribed For section. S Go to the Use in Pregnanc[...]

4 Selecting a Book If you’ve installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you can select which book you want to use. Follow these steps. 1. T ur n your BOOKMAN on. 2. Pr ess CARD . 3. Pr ess or to highlight a book symbol. 4. Pr ess ENTER to select it. Warning: Never install or remove a book card when your BOOKMAN is turned on. If you do, information th[...]

5 Viewing a Demonstration ➤ Help is Always at Hand Y ou 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. T o read a tutorial about how to use this book, select Tutorial from the Setup menu. Using the Color Keys T he red, green, yellow , and blue keys on the top row of [...]

6 Looking up a Drug If you know the brand or generic name of a drug, here’ s how to find its drug profile. 1. Pr ess DRUG (the r ed key). Or highlight Drugs on the Con- tents menu and then press ENTER . 2. T ype a brand or generic dr ug name. For example, type T ylenol . T o undo a letter , press BACK . 3. When the drug is high- lighted, press EN[...]

7 Reading a Drug Pr ofile Drug profiles provide detailed informa- tion about prescriptions, dosage, side effects, drug interactions, and more. Follow this example to learn how to read a drug profile. 1. Go to the start of the drug pr o- file for T ylenol . T o learn how , read “Looking up a Drug.” 2. Use or to scroll line by line. 3. Use DN or [...]

8 Y ou can read health overviews cov- ering topics such as “Coping with Arthritis” and “Handling Familiar Childhood Infections.” 1. Pr ess HEALTH (the gr een key). Or highlight Health Overviews on the Contents menu and then press ENTER . 2. Highlight a topic (for ex- ample, Coping with Arthritis ). T o highlight a topic, press or DN , or ty[...]

9 Y ou can also read medical safety tips about Poison Control Centers, safe medication use, alcohol- or sugar - free drugs, drugs that cause a reac- tion to sunlight, and recommended vaccinations. 1. Press TIPS (the yellow key). Or highlight Med. Safety Tips on the Contents menu and then press ENTER . 2. Highlight a topic (for ex- ample, Poison Con[...]

10 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. 1. Pr ess 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, press ENTER . If there are subentries or a re[...]

11 Searching for W or ds first match (i.e., occurrence). 4. Press ENTER to see the first match. 5. Hold ✩ and pr ess DN r epeat- edly to see the Outline Locations 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 it. Then press ENTER to see its cross-refer[...]

12 Highlighting Search W or ds Y ou can also search for words by highlighting a word in a drug profile, health overview , or medical safety tip. T ry this example. 1. Pr ess TIPS (the yellow key). 2. Select Alcohol-fr ee Products and then select Analgesics . T o learn how , read “Reading Medical Safety T ips.” 3. Pr ess ENTER to start the highl[...]

13 This BOOKMAN book card can send words to and receive words from cer - tain other BOOKMAN books. T o send or receive words between books, you must install a book card in your BOOKMAN. In addition, the in- stalled book card(s) and/or its built-in book must be able to send or receive words. T o learn if a book can send or receive words, read its Us[...]

14 BOOKMAN Model CDR-440 © 1996 Franklin Electronic Publisher , Inc., Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 U.S. All rights reserved. © 1995 by Medical Economics, Inc. All rights reserved. PDR and Family Guide to Prescription Drugs are registered trademarks of Medi- cal Economics, Inc. T ylenol is a registered trademark of McNeil Pharmaceutical. Demerol is a[...]

15 Index ?* key 10 Alcohol-free drugs 9, 12 Arrows flashing 8 slanted 6 Asterisk (for finding words) 12 Auto-resume feature 4 Automatic shutoff 6 Batteries, installing 3 Book cards installing 4 removing 4 BOOKMAN resetting 14 troubleshooting tips 14 Breastfeeding information 8 Capital letters, typing 11 CARD key 4, 13 Changing books 4 screen contra[...]

16 Index most important fact about a drug 8 Outline Location of text 10 overdosage 8 Poison Control Centers 9 pregnancy information 8 prescription information 8 recommended vaccinations 9 side effects 8 special warnings 8 sugar -free dr ugs 9 Food and drug interactions 8 Function keys 2 General information about a drug 8 Health overviews 8 Help mes[...]

17 Selecting books 4 settings 6 Shutoff time 6 Side effects 8 Slanted arrows 6 Special warnings 8 ST AR+BACK 2 ST AR+CARD 13 ST AR+ENTER 7 Sugar -free dr ugs 9 T roubleshooting tips 14 T utorial 5 T ype size 6 V accinations 9 Viewing complete menu items 9 demonstration 5 help messages 5 Outline Location of text 10 tutorial 5 word search matches 11,[...]

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