DOC-3010 TM Medical Book System DRUGS OF CHOICE FROM THE MEDICAL LETTER ® Book Card User's Guide Quick Reference Guide To Start Using a Book Card 1. Install the book card in a slot in the back of the Medical Book System platform. 2. Turn the platform on. 3. If needed, press CARD and then use the or to highlight its icon. 4. Press ENTER to select it. To Use the Menus 1. Press MENU and highlight the Diseases menu or the Drugs menu. 2. Highlight an entry by typing its name or pressing or . 3. Press ENTER . 4. Select subitems, if needed, by highlighting them and pressing ENTER . 5. Use , DN , or SPACE to scroll. To Search for Words 1. Press SEARCH . 2. Type one or more words. 3. Press ENTER . 4. Hold and press DN to see the locations of matches. 5. Press ENTER to see a match or MENU to see the matches listed on the menus. 6. To expand a search, press MORE . To Use Notes 1. When the text of the book is on screen, press LIST . 2. Press ENTER to select Add Note. 3. Press ENTER or type your own note title and then press ENTER . 4. To find a note in the text, press LIST , highlight a note title, and then press ENTER . 19 License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM. YOUR USE OF THE MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. The MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in this package and 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. Such copying would be in violation of applicable copyright laws. Further, you may not modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, create derivative works of, or in any way reverse engineer the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM. You may not export or re-export, directly or indirectly, the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM without compliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM contains Franklin's confidential and propriety information which you agree to take adequate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective until terminated. This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license. 1 Contents Installing Book Cards ................ 4 Selecting a Book ........................ 4 Changing the Settings .............. 5 Viewing a Demonstration .......... 5 Using the Diseases Menu ......... 6 Finding Drug References .......... 7 Searching for Words ................. 8 Highlighting Search Words .... 10 Expanding Your Searches ...... 10 Reading Special Markers ......... 11 Using Notes .............................. 12 Looking Up Words in Other Books ......................... 13 Resetting the Medical Book System ............................ 14 Book Card Care ........................ 14 Specifications and Patents ...... 15 Limited Warranty (U.S. only) .... 16 For More Information To learn more about the Medical Book SystemTM or other products from Franklin Electronic Publishers, call 800-665-5450 or visit the Franklin Web site at www.franklin.com. 2 Introduction With the Drugs of Choice from The Medical Letter® book card, you can find information about drug treatments for 13 common diseases and ailments, including asthma, hypertension, and psychiatric disorders. You can also place notes to go directly to the text you use most often. To get started, simply install the book card into the Medical Book System platform. About Book Card Compatibility IMPORTANT! This book card can be used only with the Medical Book System platform and will not function in any other Franklin BOOKMAN® platform. The Medical Book System platform can use Franklin BOOKMAN book cards as well as Medical Book System book cards. However, Franklin BOOKMAN platforms cannot use Medical Book System book cards. Key Guide Color Keys (red) Expands a word search. (green) Displays the outline location of the current text. (yellow) Displays the word search screen. (blue) Lets you add, find, or remove a note. Function Keys Erases typed letters, or backs up to the previous screen. Shifts keys to type capitals or punctuation. Exits the currently selected book. Clears an entry or search and goes to the default state. Enters a word, selects a menu item, or starts the highlight in text. Displays help messages. Displays the main menus. Turns the platform on or off. At entry screens, types a space. At menus and text, pages down. At menus, displays the title of a highlighted item. With CAP , types an asterisk () to stand for letters in a word. Direction Keys Pages up or down. Moves the cursor, text, or highlight. BACK MORE UP DN SPEC SEARCH LIST BACK CAP CARD CLEAR ENTER HELP MENU ON/OFF SPACE Key Combinations* Goes to the top level of a menu from a lower level. + CARD Transfers a highlighted word between installed book cards. + ENTER At a highlighted menu item, displays the related text. At text, highlights a footnote, bibliographic reference, crossreference, or note. +Q-P Types numbers. At text, displays the next or pre + DN vious section or subsection. or UP CAP + Goes to the top or bottom of or a menu or list. At text, goes to the next or previous Outline title. + ? Understanding the Keys The functions of the keys may vary according to which book card is installed and selected in the platform. To learn how to use a particular book card, read its user's guide. * Hold the first key while pressing the second. 3 Installing Book Cards CAUTION Never install or remove a book card when the platform is turned on. If you do, information entered in any installed book cards may be erased. 1. Turn the platform off. 2. Turn the platform over. 3. Align the book card tabs with the notches in a card slot. 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 or to highlight the book you want to use. 4. Press the book card until it snaps into the slot. 4. Press Removing Book Cards CAUTION When you remove a book card from a platform, information entered in that book card will be erased. 4 ENTER to select it. Resuming Where You Left Off You can turn off the platform at any screen. When you turn it on again, the last screen that you viewed appears. Changing the Settings Using the Setup menu, you can adjust the type size, default state, shutoff time, and screen contrast of this book. The type size sets how large the characters appear on screen. The shutoff time sets how long your Medical Book System stays on if you forget to turn it off. The default state sets the screen that appears when you press CLEAR . 1. Press MENU . 2. Highlight Set Type Size, Set Default State, Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast on the Setup menu. Viewing a Demonstration Before you start using this book, you may want to see a brief demonstration of what it can do. Press MENU and then use the arrow keys to highlight View Demo on the Setup menu. Press ENTER to select it. To stop the demonstration, press CLEAR . Help is Always at Hand You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing HELP . To exit help, press BACK . To read a tutorial about this book, select Tutorial from the Setup menu. Follow the Arrows The flashing arrows at the right of the screen show which arrow keys you can press to move through menus or view more text. 5 3. Press ENTER . 4. Use or to change the setting. Or press BACK to leave the setting unchanged. 5. Press ENTER to select it. Using the Diseases Menu The Diseases menu contains the chapters, sections, and subsections of the printed book. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. If needed, press MENU and highlight the Diseases menu. 3. Use or to highlight a chapter. For example, highlight Hypertension. Using the Diseases Menu 5. Highlight a section and press ENTER . For example, select Diuretics. To see the full title of any menu item, press ? . 6. Highlight a subsection and press ENTER . For example, select Loop Diuretics. You can also highlight a menu item by typing its title. To delete a letter, press BACK . The slanted arrow indicates that the menu item has a submenu. 4. When the desired chapter is highlighted, press ENTER to select it. 7. Use , DN , or SPACE to scroll. 8. To go to the next or previous subsection, hold CAP and use or . 9. Press CLEAR when finished. You can also go directly to the text by holding and pressing ENTER . 6 Using the Diseases Menu Finding Drug References All the drugs in this book are listed alphabetically on the Drugs menu. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. If needed, press MENU and highlight the Drugs menu. 3. Start typing the name of a drug. For example, type Ibuprofen. Where in the Book Am I? When you are reading the text of a chapter or drug reference, you can see the Outline location of the current text by pressing ? . To scroll up to a higher level of the Outline, use . To display the full title of an item, press ? . This is especially useful when the title ends in ellipses. Press BACK to go back to the text that you were reading. Or press ENTER to go to the text of the highlighted item. Understanding Tables In this book card, tables are displayed as bulleted text. Row titles are in bold type and column titles and information are indented beneath them. 7 To delete a letter, use BACK . You can also use or to highlight a drug. 4. When the drug is highlighted, press ENTER . 5. Highlight a reference, if needed, and press ENTER . Finding Drug References 6. Use , DN , or SPACE to scroll. 7. To go to the next or previous subsection, hold CAP and use or . 8. Press CLEAR when finished. 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 34 characters in a single search. But you cannot search for short, common words such as the and is. 1. Press SEARCH (yellow). 2. Type your search words. For example, type severe headache. Reviewing the Outline When the text of the book is on the screen, you can go to the lowest level of the Outline associated with that text, by pressing SPEC (green). To delete a letter, use BACK . You do not need to type capitals or punctuation to find matches. 3. Press ENTER to search. Then you can press SPEC (green) to go to the higher levels of the Outline. To go to a section of the Outline, highlight it and press ENTER . To go back, press BACK . A checkmark indicates the current section or chapter. 8 This is the Outline location of the first match of your search words. Searching for Words 4. Press ENTER Searching for Words to see the match. If You Misspell a Search Word If you enter a misspelled search word, a list of corrections appears. Your search words are boxed. You may have to scroll down to see them. 5. To see the Outline location of the next or previous matches, if any, hold and press DN or UP . Use 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 asterisk () in place of the missing letters. For example, type hypo and then press ENTER . To type an asterisk, hold CAP and press ? . 6. Press MENU to see the chapters with matches. After a word search, only chapters with matches are listed on the menus. 7. Use the arrow keys to highlight a menu item and then press ENTER . If needed, select a subitem. 8. Press SEARCH (yellow) or CLEAR to clear your search. 9 Use press ENTER to highlight a match and then . Highlighting Search Words You can also search for a word by highlighting it in text. 1. At the text of any chapter or drug reference, press ENTER . Expanding Your Searches You can expand a word search up to three times to find inflections, synonyms, and similar words. 1. Press SEARCH (yellow). 2. Type a word and then press ENTER . For example, enter cancer. To turn off the highlight, press BACK . 2. Use the arrow keys to highlight a word. 3. Press MORE (red) to expand the search. 3. Press ENTER to search for it. 4. Press ENTER again to see the first match. 5. Hold and press DN repeatedly to see the Outline locations of the next matches, if any. To see the location of previous matches, if any, hold and use UP . 6. Press MENU to see the menu items with matches. 10 4. Hold and use DN to see the Outline locations of the next matches, if any. To see the location of previous matches, if any, hold and use UP . 5. Press MENU to see the matches listed on the menu. 6. Press CLE ...