Franklin GCC-3012 User manual

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GCC-3012
Medical Book Card
User’s Guide
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MBS
Medical Book System™

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To Use the Menus
1. Press
MENU
and highlight the
Outline menu or the Index menu.
2. On the Outline menu and
submenus, and on the Index
submenus, highlight an entry by
typing its name or pressing or
.
3. Press
ENTER
to select.
4. 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
.
Quick Reference Guide
* You can use the Quick Keys only when the text of a
drug monograph is on the screen.
To Use Notes
1. When the text of the book is on
screen, press
LIST
.
2. Press
ENTER
to select Add note .
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
ENTER
.
Quick Keys*
Goes to Basics section .
Goes to Diagnosis section.
Goes to
Followup section.
Goes to Medications section.
Goes to Miscellaneous
(Other) section.
Goes to
Treatment section.
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READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE MEDICAL BOOK
SYSTEM.
YOUR USE OF THE MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM DEEMS THATYOUACCEPT
THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOTAGREE WITH THESE
TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO
THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE MEDICAL BOOK SYS-
TEMAND 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 ex-
port or re-export, directly or indirectly, the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM without com-
pliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM
contains Franklin’s confidential and proprietary 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.
License Agreement

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➤ For More Information
To learn more about the Medical Book
System or other products from Frank-
lin Electronic Publishers, call 609-239-
4333 or visit the Franklin Web site at
www.franklin.com.
➤ 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 BOOK-
MAN platforms cannot use Medical
Book System book cards.
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 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.
Contents

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Color Keys
MORE
(red)Expands a word search.
SPEC
(green)Displays the Outline loca-
tion of the current text.
SEARCH
( yellow )Displaysthewordsearchscreen.
LIST
(blue) Lets you add, find, or remove
a note.
Function Keys
BACK
Erases typed letters, or backs up to
the previous screen.
CAP
Shiftskeystotypecapitalsorpunctuation.
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
, types an
asterisk (✽) to stand for letters in a
word.At text, displays the current Out-
line location of the text.
Key Combinations*
✩
+ CARD Transfers a highlighted word
between installed book cards.
✩
+
ENTER
At a highlighted menu item, dis-
plays the related text.At text,
highlights special markers (e.g.,
footnotes, cross-references,
tables, etc.).
✩
+Q-P Types numbers.
✩
+
DN
At text, displays the next or
previous paragraph, table row,
or search match.
CAP
+ Goes to the top or bottom of
a menu or list.At text, goes to
the next or previous Outline title.
Key Guide
➤ Understanding the Keys
The functions of the keys may vary ac-
cording 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.
or
UP
or
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.

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Key Guide
Direction Keys
Pages up or down.
Moves the cursor, text, or highlight.
Quick Keys*
Installing Book Cards
➤ Removing Book Cards
CAUTION When you remove a book
card from a platform, information en-
tered in that book card may be erased.
➤ Understanding the Quick Keys
When a monograph is on the screen, you
can use the quick keys to quickly view its
different topics.
UP
DN
Goes to the Basics section.
Goes to the Diagnosis section.
Goes to the Followup section.
Goes to the Medications section.
Goes to the Miscellaneous
(Other) section.
Goes to the Treatment section.
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.
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* You can use the Quick Keys only when the text of a
drug monograph is on the screen.

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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.
Selecting a Book
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 charac-
ters 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 De-
fault State, Set Shutoff
, or Set
Contrast
on the Setup menu.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Use or to change the setting.
Or press
BACK
to leave the setting
unchanged.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Changing the Settings

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➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtu-
ally any screen by pressing
HELP
. To
exit help, press
BACK
.
To read a tutorial about this book, se-
lect 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.
Before you start using this book, you may
want to see a brief demonstration.
Press
MENU
and then use the arrow keys to
highlight View Demo on the Setup menu.
Press
ENTER
to select it. To stop the dem-
onstration, press
CLEAR
.
You can read any section of this book by
selecting it on the Outline.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. If needed, press
MENU
and high-
light the Outline menu.
3. Type a disease name. For ex-
ample, 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-
lighted, press
ENTER
to select it.
Note: You can go directly from the
Outline menu to the text of the mono-
graph by holding
✩
and pressing
ENTER
.
Viewing a Demonstration
Using the Outline

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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.
Using the Outline
➤ Where Am I?
When the text of the book is on the
screen, you can see the Outline loca-
tion 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
ENTER
. To go
back to the text that you were reading,
press
BACK
.
9. To go to the next or previous
topic, hold
CAP
and use or
.
10. Press
CLEAR
when finished.

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Using the Index
Use Topics to find disease monographs
quickly. For example to find Noncardiac
pulmonary edema type edema and press
ENTER
.
Type non or use or to highlight
Noncardiac…, 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.
Use User Terms to search for diseases by
their common names. While you would
type tuberculosis on the Outline menu,
you can type tb on the User Terms menu
and press
ENTER
to find the same mono-
graph.
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
.
Use Trades to go to the text of the dis-
ease or a list of diseases that a brand
name drug is used for. For example, type
coumadin and press
ENTER
. Use or
to highlight the entry you want, and press
ENTER
.