Franklin Pocket PDR PDR-3036 User Manual

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User's Guide

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  • Page 1 PDR-3036 Medical Book Card User’s Guide...
  • Page 2 FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. LIMITED USE LICENSE All rights in the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM remain the property of FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to use the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM. You may not make any copies of the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM or of the preprogrammed data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    MAN platforms cannot use Medical Book System book cards. For More Information To learn more about the Medical Book System or other products from Frank- lin Electronic Publishers, call 800-665- 5450 or visit the Franklin Web site at www.franklin.com. ® platform.
  • Page 4: Publishers' Note

    Publishers’ Note conforms with the drug manufacturers’ originals, neither the publisher, Medical Economics Company, Inc., nor the producer of the unit, Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., warrant that the information is accurate, that the unit will perform without interruption or free of...
  • Page 5: Key Guide

    Color Keys ) Expands a word search. MORE ) Displays the Outline loca- green SPEC tion of the current text. ) Displays the word search screen. SEARCH yellow ) Lets you add, find, or remove blue LIST a note. Function Keys Erases typed letters, or backs up to BACK the previous screen.
  • Page 6: Installing Book Cards

    Key Guide Direction Keys Pages up or down. Moves the cursor, text, or highlight. Quick Keys* Goes to Adverse Reactions topic. Goes to Contraindications topic. Goes to Dosage and Administration topic. Goes to Equivalents menu. Goes to Generics topic. Goes to How Supplied topic. Goes to Indications and Usage topic.
  • Page 7: Selecting A Book

    Selecting a Book If you have installed two book cards in the platform, you can select which book you want to read. 1. Turn the platform on. 2. Press CARD 3. Use to highlight the book you want to use. 4.
  • Page 8: Viewing A Demonstration

    Viewing a Demonstration Before you start using this book, you may want to see a brief demonstration. Press and then use the arrow keys to MENU highlight View Demo on the Setup menu. Press to select it. To stop the dem- ENTER onstration, press CLEAR...
  • Page 9 Finding Drug Information If you entered a brand name, the monograph’s topics appear. Note: You can go directly from the Drugs menu to the default topic of the monograph by holding ENTER 5. Highlight a topic and press view the drug monograph. 6.
  • Page 10: Finding Therapeutic Classes

    Finding Therapeutic Classes Every drug in the Pocket PDR fied by its therapeutic use. 1. Press CLEAR 2. If needed, press MENU light the Class menu. 3. Start typing the name of a thera- peutic class. For example, type Motion Sickness Products . To de-select a letter, use You can also use a class.
  • Page 11: Searching For Words

    Searching for Words Word searches find all the occurrences, or matches, of a word or word phrase in this book. You can type up to 99 characters in a single search. But you cannot search for short, common words such as the and is. 1.
  • Page 12: Highlighting Search Words

    Searching for Words If You Misspell a Search Word If you enter a misspelled search word, a list of corrections appears. to highlight a correction and then press ENTER Searching for Parts of Words If you want to find prefixes, suffixes, or other parts of words, type an aster- isk ( ) in place of the missing letters.
  • Page 13: Expanding Your Searches

    Expanding Your Searches You can expand a word search up to three times to find inflected forms of words, synonyms, and similar words. 1. Press (yellow). SEARCH 2. Type a word and then press For example, enter diabetes . 3. Press (red) to expand the MORE search.
  • Page 14: Reading Special Markers

    Reading Special Markers Throughout this book, you will find cross-references (indicated by footnotes (indicated by (indicated by ’s). Cross-references take you directly to related material in the book. Tables and footnotes provide addi- tional information. 1. When you see in the text, hold ENTER Notice the highlight.
  • Page 15: Using Notes

    Using Notes To Add a Note You can add up to 10 notes to the text of this book to quickly find the sections that you most often use. 1. When text is on screen, press (blue). LIST 2. Press to select Add note .
  • Page 16: Looking Up Words In Other Books

    Looking Up Words in Other Books The Medical Book System platform enables you to look up a word from one installed book card in the other installed book card. This book card can send words to and re- ceive words from other book cards. Some book cards are not able to transfer words.
  • Page 17: Book Card Care

    All rights reserved. Physicians’ Desk Reference is a registered trademark of Medical Economics Inc. used herein under license. Medical Book System and BOOKMAN are trademarks of Franklin Electronic Pub- lishers, Inc. U.S. Patents 4,490,811; 4,830,618; 5,113,340; 5,321,609; 5,396,606; 5,218,536; 5,627,726; 5,153,831.
  • Page 18: Fcc Notice

    FCC Notice NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not in- stalled and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
  • Page 19: Limited Warranty (U.s. Only)

    WARRANTY, WILL BE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT WITH THE SAME OR AN EQUIVALENT PRODUCT OF THE DEFECTIVE PORTION OF THE PRODUCT, AT THE SOLE OPTION OF FRANKLIN IF IT DETERMINES THAT THE PRODUCT WAS DEFECTIVE AND THE DEFECTS AROSE WITHIN THE DURATION OF THE LIMITED WARRANTY.
  • Page 20: Index

    Limited Warranty (outside U.S.) This product, excluding batteries, is guaranteed by Franklin for a period of one year from the date of purchase. It will be repaired or replaced with an equivalent product (at Franklin’s option) free of charge for any defect due to faulty work- manship or materials.
  • Page 21 Help messages 7 Highlighting footnotes 13 words 11 Key combinations 4 LIST (blue) 4, 14 Misspellings, correcting drug names 8 search words 11 MORE (red) key 4, 12 NA marker 13 NF marker 13 NOTE marker 14 Notes deleting 14 deleting all at once 14 finding 14 Pocket PDR™...
  • Page 22: Quick Reference Guide

    Quick Reference Guide To Use the Menus 1. Press and highlight the Drugs MENU menu or the Class menu. 2. Highlight an entry by typing its name or pressing 3. Press ENTER 4. Select subitems, if needed, by highlighting them and pressing ENTER 5.
  • Page 23 ™ Medical Book System...

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