submenus, and on the Index
submenus, highlight an entry by
typing its name or pressing
or
.
ENTER
to select.
, DN, or
SPACE
to scroll.
T o Use Notes
1. When the text of the book is on
screen, press
2. Press
ENTER
3. Type your note title and then press
ENTER
.
4. To find a note in the text, press
LIST
, highlight a note title, and
then press
LIST
.
to select
ENTER
.
Add note
.
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T o Search for W ords
1. Press
2. Type one or more words.
3. Press
4. Hold
5. Press
6. To expand a search, press
SEARCH
.
ENTER
.
and press DN to see
✩
the locations of matches.
ENTER
MENU
to see a match or
to see the matches listed
on the menus.
MORE
.
Quick Keys*
B
Goes to
Basics
section
.
D
Goes to
Diagnosis
Followup
Goes to
F
Medications
Goes to
M
O
Goes to
Miscellaneous
(Other) section.
T
Goes to
Treatment
* You can use the Quick Keys only when the text of a
drug monograph is on the screen.
section.
section.
section.
section.
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
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Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to
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if you fail to comply with any provision of this license.
1
Contents
Key Guide..................................... 3
Installing Book Cards .................. 4
Selecting a Book .......................... 5
Changing the Settings ................. 5
Viewing a Demonstration ............ 6
Using the Outline ......................... 6
Using the Index ............................8
Searching for Words....................9
Highlighting Search Words ....... 10
Expanding Your Searches ......... 11
Reading Special Markers........... 12
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 Warranties................15-16
Index ........................................... 17
➤
About Book Card Compatibility
IMPORTANT This book card can be
used only with the Medical Book Sys-
™
tem
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.
➤
For More Information
To learn more about the Medical Book
System or other products from Franklin Electronic Publishers, call 609-2394333 or visit the Franklin Web site at
www.franklin.com.
➤
About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s
Guide may vary slightly from what you
see on screen. This does not mean that
your Medical Book System platform or
this book card is malfunctioning.
2
Key Guide
Color Keys
MORE
(red) Expands a word search.
SPEC
(green) Displays the Outline location of the current text.
SEARCH
(
yellow
) Displays the word search screen.
LIST
(blue ) Lets you add, find, or remove
a note.
Function Keys
BACK
Erases typed letters, or backs up to
the previous screen.
CAP
Shifts keys to type capitals or punctuation.
CARD
Exits the currently selected book.
CLEAR
Clears an entry or search and goes
to the default state.
ENTER
Enters a word, selects a menu item,
or starts the highlight in text.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU
Displays the main menus.
ON/OFF
Turns the platform on or off.
SPACE
At entry screens, types a space. At
menus and text, pages down.
✻
At menus, displays the title of a high-
?
lighted item. With
CAP
asterisk (✽) to stand for letters in a
word. At text, displays the current Outline location of the text.
, types an
Key Combinations*
+
CARD
✩
+
✩
Transfers a highlighted word
between installed book cards.
ENTER
At a highlighted menu item, displays the related text. At text,
highlights special markers (e.g.,
footnotes, cross-references,
tables, etc.).
✩
+Q-PTypes numbers.
or
or
+
✩
UP
CAP
At text, displays the next or
DN
previous paragraph, table row,
or search match.
+
Goes to the top or bottom of
a menu or list. At text, goes to
the next or previous Outline title.
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.
➤
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.
3
Key Guide
Installing Book Cards
Direction Keys
DN
UP
Pages up or down.
Moves the cursor, text, or highlight.
Quick Keys*
Goes to the Basics section.
B
D
Goes to the
F
Goes to the
M
Goes to the
Goes to the Miscellaneous
O
T
* You can use the Quick Keys only when the text of a
➤
Other) section.
(
Goes to the
drug monograph is on the screen.
Understanding the Quick Keys
Diagnosis section.
Followup section.
Medications section.
Treatment section.
When a monograph is on the screen, you
can use the quick keys to quickly view its
different topics.
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.
4. Press the book card until it snaps
into the slot.
➤
Removing Book Cards
CAUTION When you remove a book
card from a platform, information entered in that book card may be erased.
4
Selecting a BookChanging the Settings
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
ENTER
to select it.
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
MENU
.
CLEAR
.
when you press
1. Press
2. Highlight Set Type Size, Set De-
fault State, Set Shutoff, or Set
Contrast on the Setup menu.
3. Press
4. Use
ENTER
.
or to change the setting.
Or press
BACK
to leave the setting
unchanged.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
5
Viewing a Demonstration
Using the Outline
Before you start using this book, you may
want to see a brief demonstration.
MENU
Press
and then use the arrow keys to
highlight View Demo on the Setup menu.
ENTER
Press
onstration, press
➤
Help is Always at Hand
to select it. To stop the dem-
CLEAR
.
You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing
exit help, press
BACK
HELP
.
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.
. To
You can read any section of this book by
selecting it on the Outline.
1. Press
2. If needed, press
CLEAR
.
MENU
and high-
light the Outline menu.
3. Type a disease name. For example, type Arthritis.
To de-select a letter, press
BACK
.
You can also highlight a menu item by
using
or .
The slanted arrow indicates that the
menu item has a submenu.
4. When the disease name is high-
ENTER
lighted, press
to select it.
Note: You can go directly from the
Outline menu to the text of the monograph by holding
ENTER
.
and pressing
✩
6
Using the Outline
5. Highlight a topic and then press
ENTER
For example, select Diagnosis.
6. Highlight a section and press
ENTER
7. To go quickly to another topic,
use the Quick Keys.
To learn more about the Quick Keys,
refer to “Key Guide.”
8. Use , DN, or
SPACE
to scroll.
9. To go to the next or previous
CAP
topic, hold
and use or
.
CLEAR
when finished.
.
10. Press
➤
Where Am I?
When the text of the book is on the
screen, you can see the Outline location of the current text by pressing
SPEC
(green) or
?
.
To display the full title of a highlighted
item, press
✻
. This is useful when a
?
title ends in ellipses.
To go to the text associated with a
highlighted item, press
back to the text that you were reading,
BACK
press
.
7
✻
.
ENTER
. To go
Using the Index
Use Topics to find disease monographs
quickly. For example to find Noncardiacpulmonary edema in the T opics menu,
start typing edema.
or to highlight Noncardiac…,
Use
and press
ENTER
.
You do not need to type spaces. To delete
a letter use
BACK
. You can also use
or to highlight an index entry.
You can search for diseases by their common names. While you would type tuber-culosis in the Outline menu, you can type
ENTER
tb in the Topics menu and press
to
find the same monograph.
Use Medications to go to the text of the
disease or a list of diseases that a generic
drug is used for. For example, type war -
farin and press
ENTER
. Use or to
highlight the entry you want, and press
ENTER
.
You can also use Medications to go to
the text of the disease or a list of diseases
that a brand name drug is used for . For
example, type coumadin and press
or to highlight the entry you
Use
want, and press
ENTER
.
ENTER
8
.
Searching for Words
W ord searches find all the occurrences, or
matches, of a word or word phrase in this book.
You can type up to 100 characters in a
single search. But you cannot search for
short, common words such as the and is.
1. Press
2. Type your search words. For ex-
3. Press
4. Press
SEARCH
(yellow).
ample, type cyanosis.
To delete a letter, use
BACK
.
You do not need to type capitals or
punctuation to find matches.
ENTER
to search.
This is the Outline location of the first
match of your search words.
ENTER
to see the match.
Your search words are boxed.
5. To go quickly to another topic, use
the Quick Keys.
To learn more about the Quick Keys,
read the “Key Guide.”
6. To see the Outline location of the
next or previous matches, if any,
✩
hold
7. Press
and press DN or UP.
MENU
to see the matches
listed on the menus.
After a word search, only matching entries are listed on the menus.
8. Use the arrow keys to highlight a
menu item and then press
needed, select a subitem.
9. Press
SEARCH
(yellow) or
CLEAR
clear your search.
9
ENTER
to
. If
Searching for Words
Highlighting Search Words
➤
If You Misspell a Search Word
If you enter a misspelled search word,
a list of corrections appears.
to highlight a correction and
Use
then press
➤
Searching for Parts of Words
ENTER
.
If you want to find prefixes, suffixes,
or other parts of words, type an asterisk (✽) in place of the missing letters.
For example, type bacter
ENTER
press
CAP
Use
press
. T o type an asterisk, hold
and press
to highlight a match and then
ENTER
.
✽
and then
✻
.
?
You can also search for a word by highlighting it in text.
1. At the text, press
To turn off the highlight, press
ENTER
.
BACK
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight a word.
3. Press
4. Press
ENTER
to search for it.
ENTER
again to see the first
match.
5. Hold
✩
and press DN or UP repeatedly to see the Outline locations of
the next or previous matches, if any.
6. Press
MENU
to see the menu items
with matches.
CLEAR
7. Press
when finished.
10
.
Expanding Y our Searches
You can expand a word search up to three
times to find inflected forms of words,
synonyms, and similar words.
1. Press
2. Type a word and then press
SEARCH
(yellow).
ENTER
For example, enter diabetes.
3. Press
MORE
(red) to expand the
search.
✩
4. Hold
and press DN or UP repeatedly to see the Outline locations of
the next or previous matches, if any.
5. Press
MENU
to see the matches
listed on the menu.
CLEAR
6. Press
when finished.
➤
Understanding Word Searches
and Expansions
When you search for a word, either by
entering it at the word search screen or
.
by highlighting it in text, headings and
subheadings (in bold type) are
searched first for exact matches. If no
exact matches are found in the headings, then the text is searched for exact
matches.
If no exact matches are found, then the
headings are searched for inexact
matches, such as inflections and synonyms. If no inexact matches are
found in the headings, then the text is
searched for them.
A word search stops as soon as
matches are found at a level described
above. Pressing
MORE
the search to the next level and finds
additional matches, if any. Note: The
number of matches found at a given
search level may be less than at the
previous level.
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(red) continues
Reading Special Markers
Using Notes
Throughout this book, you will find
cross-references (indicated by
’s).
Cross-references take you directly to related material in the book.
1. When you see a in the text,
✩
hold
and press
ENTER
.
Notice the highlight. To undo the highlight, press
2. Press
3. Press
BACK
.
ENTER
.
BACK
repeatedly to go back.
On the Outline menu you will find
next to some topics. This is to indicate
that those entries are short monographs.
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
LIST
(blue).
ENTER
2. Press
3. Type your note. A note can contain
up to 25 characters.
The marker is added to the text
when you add a note.
12
to select Add note.
Using Notes
Looking Up Words
in Other Books
To Find a Note
Once you have added notes to this book, you
can easily find them.
1. Press
2. Use
LIST
(blue).
to highlight a note title.
Your notes are listed by recency.
3. Press
ENTER
to go to that note.
To Remove a Note
1. Find a in the text of this book.
2. Press
3. To see the full title of the note to
4.
Press
➤
Removing All Your Notes
LIST
(blue).
✻
be removed, press
ENTER
to select
Or press
BACK
to exit without remov-
.
?
Remove note...
ing the note.
You can remove all your notes at one
time by resetting the Medical Book
System. To learn how, read “Resetting
the Medical Book System.”
WARNING Resetting the
Book System
may erase other informa-
Medical
tion that you have entered in other
installed book cards.
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 receive words from other book cards. Some
book cards are not able to transfer words. To
learn if a book card can send or receive
words, read its User’s Guide.
1. Install two book cards in the
platform.
2. Select a book to read.
3. Highlight a word in that book .
You can highlight words in menus,
lists, entries, and other text. To learn
how to highlight a word in this book,
read “Highlighting Search Words.”
4. Hold ✩ and press
CARD
.
5. Highlight the icon of the other
book card and then press
The word that you highlighted appears
in the other book.
6. Press
ENTER
again, if needed, to
search for the word in the other
book.
13
ENTER
.
Resetting the Medical
LBS.
Book System
Book Card Care
If, due to electrostatic discharge or other
cause, the keyboard fails to respond or the
screen performs erratically, try the steps
below to reset the platform. Perform only
as many steps as required to restore normal operation.
CAUTION Resetting the platform when
book cards are installed may erase settings and information entered in those
book cards. Remove all book cards before
resetting.
1. Hold
CLEAR
and press
ON/OFF
twice.
If nothing happens, try Step 2.
2. Use the end of an opened paper clip
to gently press the reset button on
the back of the platform.
The reset button is recessed in a pin-sized
hole located near the book card slots.
CAUTION Pressing the reset button
with more than light pressure may permanently disable it.
If nothing happens, try Step 3.
3. Remove and reinstall the batteries.
To learn how, read the Medical Book
System platform’s User’ s Guide.
• Do not touch the metal contacts on
the book cards.
CAUTION Touching the electrical contacts with statically charged objects, including your fingers, could erase
information entered in a book card.
• Do not put excessive pressure on
the book cards.
• Do not expose the book cards to
heat, cold, or liquids.
14
Specifications and Patents
Limited Warranty (outside U.S.)
Griffith’s 5 Minute Clinical Consult
Model GCC-3035
Medical Book System and BOOKMAN are trademarks
of Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE
FCC Notice:
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 installed and used in accordance with the
instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communica-
tions. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur
in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful inter-
ference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by
turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:
–Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
–Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
–Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that
to which the receiver is connected.
–Consult the dealer or an expereienced radio/TV technician for help.
NOTE: This unit was tested with shielded cables on the peripheral
devices. Shielded cables must be used with the unit to insure
compliance.
NOTE: The manufacturer is not responsible for any radio or TV
interference caused by unauthorized modifications to this equipment.
Such modifications could void the user’s authority to operate the
equipment.
U.S. Patents 4,490,811; 4,830,618; 5,113,340; 5,153,831;
5,218,536; 5,321,609; 5,396,606; 5,627,726.
German Patent Reg. No. M9409744.5. Euro. Patent 0 136 379.
PATENTS PENDING. ISBN 1-56712-615-4
NOTE: This equipment has been tested and
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 workmanship or materials.
Products purchased outside the United
States that are returned under warranty
should be returned to the original vendor
with proof of purchase and description of
fault. Charges will be made for all repairs
unless valid proof of purchase is provided.
This warranty explicitly excludes defects
due to misuse, accidental damage, or
wear and tear. This guarantee does not affect the consumer’s statutory rights.
This unit may change operating modes due to Electrostatic
Discharge. Normal operation of this unit can be re-established by pressing the reset key,
replacing batteries.
ON/OFF
, or by removing/
15
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