BOOKMAN EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK The PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs ® ® Electronic Publishers 18 USER’S GUIDE CDR-440
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Contents Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN®! Using your new PDR® Family Guide to Prescription Drugs® book card, you can find important information about more than 850 brand name and generic drugs. You can also read 23 informative health overviews, plus useful medical safety tips. To learn how to use this electronic book, simply follow the steps in this User’s Guide. Key Guide ...................................................................... 2 Installing the Batteries ...................................
Key Guide DRUG HEALTH TIPS SEARCH CAP CARD CLEAR ENTER HELP MENU Hold ON/OFF ?* DN ✩ UP SPACE Function Keys Backs up to the previous screen. Shifts keys to type capitals and punctuation. Exits the selected book. Clears a word search and highlights the Contents menu. Selects a menu item, starts a word search, or highlights a word in the text. Displays help messages. Toggles between the main menus and text. BACK 1 Color Keys (red) Displays the Drugs menu.
Key Guide (cont’d.) D E F G I N O P S T W Installing the Batteries Your BOOKMAN 440 model requires two CR2032, 3-volt batteries. Here is how to install or replace them. Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from your BOOKMAN, information that you entered in its built-in book and in an installed book card will be erased. Quick Keys2 Go to the Dosage section. Go to the Side Effects section. Go to the Most Important Fact section. Go to the General section.
Installing a Book Card Selecting a Book Warning: Never install or remove a book card when your BOOKMAN is turned on. If you do, information that you’ve entered in its built-in book, as well as in any other installed book cards, will be erased. 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 . 1. Turn your BOOKMAN off. 2. Turn your BOOKMAN over. 3.
Using the Color Keys Viewing a Demonstration The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on the top row of the BOOKMAN keyboard change their functions according to which book you’re currently using. If you’re using the built-in book, the color keys function as labeled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you’re using an installed book card, the color keys function as labeled on that card. You may want to see a brief demonstration of how to use this book. Simply install the book card and then follow these steps. 1.
Changing the Settings Looking up a Drug Using the Setup menu, you can adjust the type size, shutoff time, and screen contrast. The type size sets how large the characters appear on screen. The shutoff time sets how long your BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to turn it off. The screen contrast sets how light or dark the screen appears. 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).
Looking up a Drug Reading a Drug Profile You can also read medical safety tips about Poison Control Centers, safe medication use, alcohol- or sugarfree drugs, drugs that cause a reaction to sunlight, and recommended vaccinations. 6. Use or DN to scroll down. 7. Hold ✩ and press DN or UP to go to the next or previous section. 1. Press TIPS (the yellow key). Or highlight Med. Safety Tips on the Contents menu and then press ENTER . 8. Press CLEAR when done. 2.
Reading a Drug Profile Reading Health Overviews 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 You can read health overviews covering topics such as “Coping with Arthritis” and “Handling Familiar Childhood Infections.” 1. Press HEALTH (the green key). Or highlight Health Overviews on the Contents menu and then press ENTER . 2.
Reading Medical Safety Tips Reading Health Overviews 5. Use or DN to scroll down. Drug profiles provide detailed information about prescriptions, dosage, side effects, drug interactions, and more. Follow this example to learn how to read a drug profile. To learn more ways to read a drug profile, see “Reading a Drug Profile.” 6. Press CLEAR when done. 1. Go to the start of the drug profile for Tylenol. ➤ If You Misspell a Drug Name To learn how, read “Looking up a Drug.
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 from A to Z. 5. Use or DN to scroll down. 6. Use BACK to back up through the menu. 7. Press CLEAR when done. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Use the arrow keys to highlight Index. 3. Start typing an index entry. For example, type warts.
Searching for Words Searching for Words Word searches let you look up almost 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 medical words such as drug or doctor. After a word search, only items with matches appear on the menus. first match (i.e., occurrence). 4. Press If a cross-reference symbol ( ) appears, press ENTER and then the arrow keys to highlight it.
Searching for Words Highlighting Search Words press ENTER . 9. To clear your search, press SEARCH or CLEAR . You can also search for words by highlighting a word in a drug profile, health overview, or medical safety tip. Try this example. ➤ If You Misspell a Search Word 1. Press TIPS (the yellow key). 2. Select Alcohol-free Products and then select Analgesics. If you enter a misspelled search word, a list of corrections appears. To learn how, read “Reading Medical Safety Tips.
Looking Up Words in Other Books Highlighting Search Words edly to see the Outline Locations of the next matches. 8. Press MENU to see the matches on the menus. 9. Press CLEAR when done. 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.
Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks Resetting Your BOOKMAN If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to respond, or if its screen performs erratically, first press CLEAR and then press ON/OFF twice. If nothing happens, follow the steps below. Warning: Pressing the reset button with more then very light pressure may permanently disable your BOOKMAN. In addition, resetting BOOKMAN erases settings and information entered into its built-in book and in any installed book cards. 1. Hold CLEAR and press ON/OFF .
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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 information about a drug 8 Health overviews 8 Help messages 5 Highlighting menu items 6 spelling corrections 12 words to look up in other books 13 words to search for 12 XREF (cross-reference symbol) 11, 13 How to Take in
Index Health Overviews 9 Index 10 Med.
BOOKMAN EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK The PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs ® ® Electronic Publishers 18 USER’S GUIDE CDR-440
