Franklin MAR-3005 User Manual

				â		MAR-3005

Medical Book Card

MARTINDALE

The Extra Pharmacopoeia

Thirty-first Edition

User’s Guide

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.

Contents		Notes

Key Guide ...................................	3
Foreword .....................................	4
Installing Book Cards ................	8
Selecting a Book ........................	8
Changing the Settings ..............	9
Viewing a Demonstration ..........	9
Using the Outline .......................	10
Using the Index ..........................	11
Searching for Words .................	12
Highlighting Search Words ......	14
Expanding Your Searches ........	14
Viewing Special Markers ...........	15
Using Notes ................................	16
Looking up Words
in Other Book Cards ..................	17
Resetting the Platform ..............	18
Book Card Care ..........................	18
Specifications and Patents .......	19
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ....	20
Index ............................................	21

About Book Card Compatibility

WARNING 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.

For More Information

To learn more about the Medical Book System™ or other products from Franklin Electronic Publishers, call 800-665-5450 or visit the Franklin Web site at www.franklin.com.

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.

Key Guide

Color Keys

MORE (red) Expands a word search.

SPEC (green) At text, displays the Outline location.

SEARCH (yellow) Displays the search screen.

LIST (blue) Lets you add, find, or remove notes.

Function Keys

BACK Erases typed letters, or displays the previous screen.

CAP Shifts keys to type capitals or punctuation.

CARD Exits the currently selected book. CLEAR Clears to the default state.

ENTER Enters a word, selects a menu item, or starts the highlight in text.

HELP Displays help messages. MENU Highlights the Outline menu.

ON/OFF Turns the Medical Book System platform on or off.

SPACE At entry screens, types a space. At menus and text, pages down.

?* At menus, displays the full title of a highlighted item. At text, displays the Outline location.

Direction Keys

Moves the cursor, text, or highlight.

Pages up or down.

Key Combinations*

+ BACK Displays the top level of a menu from a lower level.

+ CARD Lets you look up a word from or in another installed book card.

+ ENTER At a highlighted menu item, displays the related text. At text, highlights a special marker (e.g., footnote).

+ At text, displays the next or previous section or subsection.

CAP +	At text, displays the next or
or	previous section or subsec
	tion. At a menu, goes to the
	first or last item.

* Hold the first key while pressing the second.

Foreword

NOTE: This foreword of the 16th Edition of THE MERCK MANUAL contains page references not applicable to the book card.

It has been 93 years since THE MERCK MANUAL first appeared in 1899 as a slender 262-page text titled MERCK’S MANUAL OF THE MATERIA MEDICA. It was expressly designed to meet the needs of general practitioners in selecting medications, noting that “memory is treacherous” and that even the most thoroughly informed physician needs a reminder “to make him at once master of the situation and enable him to prescribe exactly what his judgment tells him is needed for the occasion.” It was well received and, by the 6th Edition (1934), THE MERCK MANUAL had become highly valued by medical students and house staff as well; by the end of World War II the pocket-sized manual was an established favorite ready—reference book. Today THE MANUAL is the most widely used medical text in the world. While the book has grown to about 2800 pages, its primary purpose remains the same—to provide useful clinical information to practicing physicians, medical students, interns, residents, and other health care professionals.

Fewer physicians now attempt to manage the whole range of medical disorders that can occur in infants, children, and adults, but those who do must have available a broad spectrum of current and accurate information. Specialists require precise information about subjects outside their areas of expertise. All physicians need more and more information for study and examination purposes, as well as for patient care. Keeping up with the rapid and extraordinary advances in cellular and molecular biology, molecular genetics, and medical technology is more challenging that ever, but THE MERCK MANUAL continues to try to meet these needs, excluding only details of surgical procedures.

Precisely how to we attempt to meet these needs? First, from a disease orientation, THE MANUAL covers all but the most obscure disorders of mankind, not only

Foreword

those that a general internist might expect to encounter but also problems associated with pregnancy and delivery; common and serious disorders of neonates, infants, and children; and many special situations. Disorders are organized mainly according to the organ systems primarily affected, on the basis of their etiology (as with most of the infectious diseases and disorders due to physical agents), or on the basis of disciplines (e.g., gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, genetics, psychiatry). In addition, THE MANUAL contains information for special circumstances, such as radiation reactions and injuries, problems encountered in deep-sea diving, and dental emergencies. The entire book is updated for each new edition, and new subjects are added, such as discussions of genetic evaluation and counseling, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in children, sports medicine, hospice medicine, cross-cultural issues in medicine, anabolic steroid abuse, and special considerations in performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on infants and children. This edition has 140 more pages of text (approximately 5%) than the preceding edition. We therefore urge you to check the Index whenever you need information, even on unusual subjects or those not commonly found in other texts.

A completely disease-oriented compendium, however, would have serious limitations. Since patients usually present with complaints or concerns that must be meticulously described, sorted, and deciphered, many chapters are devoted to discussions of symptoms and signs and of how to elicit the historical and physical data required for diagnosis. Common clinical procedures and laboratory tests used as diagnostic and management aids are described, with emphasis on their indications, contraindications, and possible complications. New and sophisticated laboratory and technologic procedures are also described, with comments on their uses, interpretations, and limitations.

Current therapy is presented for each disorder and supplemented with a separate section on clinical pharmacology that describes general principles, new advances,

Foreword

(e.g., the role of drug receptors, plasma concentration monitoring), and details of pharmacologic groups and specific agents; it even discusses the uses of placebos. The use of complex equipment (e.g., respirators) is also described. Prophylaxis is emphasized wherever possible. Finally, reference guides are provided for checking normal values, for calculating dosages, and for converting weights, measures, and volumes to metric equivalents.

Can so many subjects by adequately covered in a single book? You, the reader, must be the ultimate judge, but we believe the answer is in the affirmative. This edition required a concerted effort by many people, beginning with an internal analysis and critique of the previous edition, even though it enjoyed highly favorable reviews and outstanding reader acceptance. Sections of that book were then sent to outside experts who had had nothing to do with its preparation, to solicit their most candid criticism. Published reviews and letters from readers were analyzed. Next, the Editorial Board met to compare reviews and critiques and to plan this 16th Edition. Distinguished special consultants were enlisted to provide additional expertise. Then, 290 authors with outstanding qualifications, experience, and knowledge were engaged. Their manuscripts were painstakingly edited by our in-house staff to retain every valuable morsel of knowledge while eliminating sometimes elegant but unneeded words. Each manuscript was then reviewed by a member of the Editorial Board or a consultant. In many cases, additional special reviewers were invited to comment. Every mention of a drug and its dosage was reviewed by still another outside consultant. The objective of all these reviews was to ensure accuracy, adequate and relevant coverage of each subject, and simple and clean exposition. The authors then reworked, modified, and polished their manuscripts. Almost all of the manuscripts were revised at least 6 times; 15 to 20 revisions were not uncommon. We believe that no other medical text undergoes as many reviews and revisions as THE MERCK MANUAL does.

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