Franklin BOOKMAN CDR-440 User Manual

Manual is about: EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK The PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs

Summary of BOOKMAN CDR-440

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    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 bookman 18 user’s guide cdr-440 ® the pdr family guide to prescription drugs ®.

  • Page 2: License Agreement

    18 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 bookm...

  • Page 3: Contents

    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. You can also read 23 informative health overviews, plus useful medical safety tips. To learn ho...

  • Page 4: Key Guide

    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 c...

  • Page 5: Key Guide (Cont’D.)

    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

    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. 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 book...

  • Page 7: Viewing A Demonstration

    5 viewing a demonstration ➤ help is always at hand you can see an appropriate help message at virtually any screen by pressing help . Press or dn to read the message. Press back to exit it. To read a tutorial about how to use this book, select tutorial from the setup menu. Using the color keys the r...

  • Page 8: Looking Up A Drug

    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. 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. W...

  • Page 9: 6. Use

    7 ➤ viewing complete menu items some topic and section titles on the health overviews and med. Safety tips menus, as well as some index entries, are too long to fit on the menus. To see a complete menu item title, highlight the item and then press ? * . 6. Use or dn to scroll down. 7. Hold ✩ and pre...

  • Page 10: Reading A Drug Profile

    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: Reading Health Overviews

    9 reading health overviews ➤ if you misspell a drug name if you misspell a drug name while typing at the drugs menu, the spell- ing correction mode appears. Type the remainder of the name to the best of your knowledge. Then press enter to see the corrections. Then highlight a correction and press en...

  • Page 12: 5. Use

    10 ➤ where in the book are you? When you’re reading a drug pro- file, health overview, or medical safety tip, you can view the out- line location of the current text by pressing ? * . The outline location shows the menu and submenu items for the text you were reading. To see the higher levels of the...

  • Page 13: Searching For Words

    11 searching for words searching for words word searches let you look up al- 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 short, common words such as the and is , or for certain common medi- cal words such as drug or doctor ....

  • Page 14: Highlighting Search Words

    12 highlighting search words you can also search for words by highlighting a word in a drug profile, health overview, or medical safety tip. Try this example. 1. Press tips (the yellow key). 2. Select alcohol-free products and then select analgesics. To learn how, read “reading medical safety tips.”...

  • Page 15: 2. Hold

    13 this bookman book can look up words in and from certain other bookman books. To look up words in or from other books, you must first install at least one book card in your bookman. In addition, the installed book card(s) must themselves be able to look up words in or from other books. To learn if...

  • Page 16: Bookman Model Cdr-440

    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. Tylenol is a registered tr...

  • Page 17: Limited Warranty

    15 limited warranty (u.S. Only) 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 informa...

  • Page 18: Index

    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 drugs 9 food and drug interactions 8 function keys 2 general inform...

  • Page 19: Index

    17 index health overviews 9 index 10 med. Safety tips 9 misspellings, correcting drug names 7 search words 12 most important fact information 8 outline location of text 10 of word search matches 11 overdosage 8 poison control centers 9 pregnancy information 8 prescription information 8 punctuation, ...

  • Page 20: Bookman

    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 bookman 18 user’s guide cdr-440 ® the pdr family guide to prescription drugs ®.