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- Page 1 For Use with the Franklin Digital Book System Electronic Publishers IC-145 DIGITAL BOOK The Medical Letter HANDBOOK ADVERSE DRUG INTERACTIONS User’ s Manual...
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Page 2: License Agreement
Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to use the DIGITAL BOOK on a single FRANKLIN Digital Book System at a time. You may not make any copies of the DIGITAL BOOK or of the data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format. -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Introduction ...3 Overview of Operation ...5 Installing the Digital Book ...7 Viewing a Demonstration ...9 Selecting Drugs ...10 Correcting Misspellings ...12 Finding Brands, Generics, Groups ...14 Finding Interactions ... 16 Between Many Drugs ...16 For a Single Drug ... 18 Viewing References ... -
Page 4: Introduction
Introduction This handbook offers a quick guide to possible adverse effects of drug interactions, with brief recommendations for precaution- ary measures. References are given to original reports that provide more complete discussions of each interaction. This book— lists adverse drug interactions, their mechanisms, and recommendations for clinical management. - Page 5 antihypertensive agents or two central-nervous-system depressants, are generally not included. Effects expected from the mechanism of a drug’s action, such as that of potassium on digitalis glycosides or calcium on calcium-entry blockers, and useful antagonist effects, such as that between a poison and an antidote, are not listed.
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Page 6: Overview Of Operation
Overview of Operation What the Handbook Can Do The Medical Letter Interactions is a powerful reference. Using this digital book, you can. . . • find brand name drugs, generic drugs, drug groups, and food groups, • correct drug name misspellings, •... - Page 7 Overview of Operation How the Handbook Works The Handbook is easy to use. Here are the basics. Highlight the HADI symbol and press At the main drug list, type a drug name. Then press Type another drug name. Press Press ENTER Press ENTER...
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Page 8: Installing The Digital Book
Installing the Digital Book Before you can use this digital book, you must install it. Warning: If you install a digital book while the Digital Book System on, information that you entered in other currently installed digital books may be erased. 1. -
Page 9: Resuming Where You Left Off
Installing the Digital Book 7. Press ENTER This is the main drug list, where you select drugs to find interactions. Resuming Where You Left Off While using this digital book, you can turn off the Digital Book System at any time. When you turn the Digital Book System on again, the screen that you last viewed appears. -
Page 10: Viewing A Demonstration
Viewing a Demonstration Before you start using this digital book, you may want to view a brief demonstration of what it can do. 1. Press MENU 2. Press 3. Press ENTER 4. Press CLEAR Help is Always at Hand Except during the demonstration, you can view a help message at any screen by pressing To read the help message, press press... -
Page 11: Selecting Drugs
Selecting Drugs The main drug list contains brand and generic drugs, foods, as well as drug and food groups. You select an item from the main drug list by typing it and then pressing ENTER few letters to highlight an item. Try this example. 1. -
Page 12: Follow The Arrows
Using the Direction Keys You can use these keys to move up and down the main drug list, the query list, and other lists. To. . . Scroll up and down Page up and down Zoom to the top or bottom of a list * Hold while pressing the other key, or... -
Page 13: Correcting Misspellings
Correcting Misspellings Don’t worry if you misspell a word. The spell- correction mode automatically appears. Try this. 1. Type “PSEUDOFED” at the main drug list. To exit spell-correction, press 2. Press ENTER 3. Press 4. Press ENTER and add it to the query list. 5. -
Page 14: Finding Letters In Words
Correcting Misspellings Finding Letters in Words If you are not sure how to spell a word, type a question mark in place of each unknown letter or an asterisk in place of a series of unknown letters. Here are two examples. •... -
Page 15: Finding Brands, Generics, Groups
Finding Brands, Generics, Groups By highlighting a drug name on the main drug list and pressing brand names and any drug or food groups to which it belongs. In this example, we’ll find the brand names and drug group of penicillin G. 1. - Page 16 Finding Brands, Generics, Groups 4. Press ENTER 5. Press to scroll down. 6. Press BACK to the main drug list. Finding MAO Inhibitor Interactions When you highlight a food name on the main drug list, pressing interacts with MAO inhibitors. Try this example. 1.
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Page 17: Finding Interactions
Finding Interactions You can find adverse interactions by selecting drugs from the main drug list and then pressing at “ SHOW INTERACTIONS .” Then you can view a description of each interaction. Between Many Drugs You can select up to 20 drugs at time to find interac- tions between them. - Page 18 4. If more than one interaction is listed, press Note: You can return to the main drug list now by pressing BACK 5. Press ENTER This is an interaction description. The hand points to a comment or recommendation. 6. Press or the DN key to move down.
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Page 19: For A Single Drug
For a Single Drug You can select a single drug from the main drug list and quickly find the drugs with which it interacts. In this example, we’ll find the interactions for heparin. 1. Type “HEPARIN” at the main drug list. 2. - Page 20 5. Press 6. Press ENTER Using the Query List Whenever you select a drug from the main drug list, it is saved in the query list. To view your queries, press you can use these keys. To. . . Delete a highlighted item View the interactions between all the items View all the interactions...
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Page 21: Viewing References
Viewing References Whenever you see a reference mark ( ) in an inter- action description, you can view its journal reference. 1. At the start of an interaction description with a , hold Notice that the If you’re below or to the left of the , hold and press ence marks, hold the next reference mark. - Page 22 3. Hold to scroll down. 4. Hold to view more references, if any. To view a previous reference, hold and press the UP key. 5. Press BACK Viewing Next or Previous References Once at a reference, you can view the next or previous reference, if any, in an interaction description by holding or the DN key.
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Page 23: Sending Words To Other Books
Sending Words to Other Books You can send drug names and other words from this digital book to other installed digital books. For ex- ample, you can look up a drug from the Handbook in The Washington Manual digital book. 1. -
Page 24: Digital Book System
Digital Book System Resetting the Digital Book System To reset the Digital Book System, hold pressing ON/OFF the back of the Digital Book System. (Read its Basic Operating Guide for details.) Warning: Resetting the Digital Book System may per- manently erase information, such as notes, that you have entered in the installed digital books. -
Page 25: Replacing The Batteries
Replacing the Batteries The DBS-1 and DBS-2 use four 3-volt, CR2032 lithi- um batteries. The DBS-2D uses four 1.5-volt, AA batteries. 1. Have new batteries ready. 2. Turn the Digital Book System off. 3. Slide the battery cover off the back. 4. -
Page 26: Limited Warranty
Limited Warranty (U.S.A only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the DIGITAL BOOK will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your DIGITAL BOOK, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., 122... -
Page 27: Product Specifications
© 1992-94 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. © 1994 The Medical Letter, Inc. All rights reserved. MatchMaker is a trademark of Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. The Medical Letter is a registered trademark of the Medical Letter, Inc. U.S. Patent 4,490, 811; 4,830,618; 5,113,340;... -
Page 28: Key Guide
Function Keys CLEAR MENU GAMES MORE LIST SPEC CARD Gold Key Combinations + number keys Type numbers. CARD + UP or DN Key Guide Clears your queries and shows the main drug list. Shows menus. No effect. No effect. Shows the query list. Shows brands, generics, groups. -
Page 29: Direction Keys
Direction Keys UP or DN MatchMaker SHIFT Query List Keys These functions apply only in the query list. Key Guide Move the highlight. Scroll through lists and text, or move the highlight. Page up or down. ™ At the main drug list, types a ? to find a letter in a word. -
Page 30: Other Keys
Other Keys BACK ENTER HELP ON/OFF SHIFT SPACE Key Guide Type letters. Erases a letter, backs up, deletes an entry, or turns off the highlight in interaction descrip- tions. Make an entry. In descriptions, highlight a word. Shows a help message. Turns unit on or off. -
Page 31: Index
Arrows 11 Backing up 8 Batteries 24 Brand names 14 Clearing to the main drug list 8 your query list 19 Comments 17 Deleting drugs from query list 19 entries 10 Demonstration 9 Direction keys 11 Drug groups 14 Drugs brand and generic 14 correcting spellings 12 displaying full names 17... - Page 32 entering a drug 10 returning to initial screen 19 seeing interactions from 19 Recommendations 17 References 20 Resuming sessions 8 Scrolling descriptions 17 lists 11 references 21 Sending words to books 22 Spellings correcting 112 finding 13 Index...
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