Franklin IC-166 User manual

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T H E S A N F O R D
GUIDE TO
ANTIMICROBIAL
THERAPY

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Contents
Notice ........................................................ 4
Key Guide ................................................. 5
Installing the Digital Book ...................... 7
Resuming Where You Left Off ............................... 7
Changing the Settings............................. 8
Viewing a Demonstration ...................................... 8
Following the Arrows ............................................. 8
Using the Outline ..................................... 9
Using the Outline Shortcuts .................................. 10
Help is Always at Hand ......................................... 10
Understanding the Outline .................................... 11
Finding Drug Equivalents ...................................... 11
Finding Abbreviation Meanings............................. 11
Using the Index ........................................ 12
Viewing Complete Menu Items ............................. 12
Searching for Words ................................ 13
If You Misspell a Word ........................................... 14
Expanding Your Searches ..................................... 15
Changing Your Searches ....................................... 15
Searching for Parts of a Word ............................... 15
Highlighting Search Words ..................... 16
Reading the Tables................................... 17
Finding Your Location ............................................ 18
Going to the Outline from a Table ......................... 18

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Contents
✓About the Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s Manual
may vary slightly from what you see on screen.
These variations don’t mean that this digital book
or your Digital Book System is malfunctioning.
Viewing Abbreviation Meanings ............................ 18
Reading Footnotes and References ...... 19
A Quick Way to Read Footnotes and References 20
Understanding Cross-References......................... 20
Using Notes .............................................. 21
A Quick Way to Add a Note ................................... 21
A Quick Way to Read a Note................................. 22
Saving Your Notes ................................................. 23
Removing All Your Notes ....................................... 23
Looking Up Words in Other Books ........ 24
Using the Digital Book System®............ 25
Specifications........................................... 26
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ................... 27
Index.......................................................... 28

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Acknowledgments: We remain indebted to Carolyn
Wickwire for her outstanding preparation of the manuscript,
which this year you may recognize as totally reformatted to
include dosages in Table 1. We also thank the staff of Gate-
way Graphics for prompt, accurate printing and the staff at
Fox Bindery for similarly prompt, accurate binding and de-
livery.
Some of the recommendations in the
Guide suggest use of
agents for purposes or in dosages other than recom-
mended in product labeling. Such recommendations are
based upon reports in peer-reviewed publications, usually
more recent, and/or common usage. They are made only
with due consideration of the concerns by the Food and
DrugAdministration about recommendations for “off-label”
uses. They are made without direct input from any of the
pharmaceutical manufacturers. We have attempted to iden-
tify such as “not FDA-approved for this indication.”
In accordance with American Medical Association guide-
lines and Food and DrugAdministration Regulations, as a
user you need to know that the
Guide is not prepared for
any single pharmaceutical company or distributor. In the
United States and Canada it is distributed by multiple phar-
maceutical companies and others in the health care field.
The
Guide is not subject to any form of approval prior to
publication. Neither Antimicrobial Therapy, Inc. nor JPS
receives reimbursement related to the
Guide other than
from sales. Further, JPS is not and has not been a funded
investigator for any antimicrobial agents since 1974.
Jay P. Sanford, M.D., Editor-in-Chief
5910 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1955
Dallas, Texas 75206, USA
February 1996
Notice

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Key Guide
Function Keys
CARD
Exit the digital book.
CLEAR
Clear to the default state.
GAMES
No effect.
LIST
From the table, display your note list.
MENU
Display the main menus.
MORE
Expand a word search to find more matches.
ON/OFF
Turn the Digital Book System on or off.
SPEC
From a table, go to the nearest Outline level.
Other Keys
ACNT
No effect. (This key found on DBS-2D.)
BACK
Backup(e.g.,erase or undo atypedletter,backup
through the menus of the Outline, go to the previ-
ousscreen,or turn offthehighlight in a table, etc.).
ENTER
Select a menu item, enter a word search,
or start the highlight in a table.
HELP
Display a contextual help message.
SAY No effect. (This key found on DBS-2D.)
SHIFT
Shift the keys to type capitals, asterisks, etc.
SPACE
At the Word Search screen, type a space.
At a menu or table, page down.
? *
At a table, display the current Outline location.
At the Word Search screen, type an asterisk as
a wild card to stand for missing letters. (To type
an asterisk, hold
SHIFT
and press
? *
.)

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Key Guide
Direction Keys
Scroll down or up.
Move the cursor or the highlight left or right.
DN
UP
Page down or up.
Gold Key Combinations*
+
BACK
At any heading in the Outline, go to the
top level (i.e., table headings).At the Note
Entry screen, exit without adding a note.
+
CARD
Transfer a word to or from certain in-
stalled digital books.
+
ENTER
From any heading in the Outline, go
directly to the corresponding table. At
a table, highlight an icon ( , ,
, or ) on screen.
+
N
Add a note to a section of a table.
+ In a menu, highlight the last or first
item. In a table, go to the next or pre-
vious row heading.
+
DN
UP
In a table, go to the next or previous row
heading or subheading.After entering a
word search, display the Outline location
of the next or previous match.At a menu,
+
DN
highlights the next item starting
with the letters you’ve typed.
*To use a key combination, hold the first key while pressing the sec-
ond. represents the gold key at the bottom left of the keyboard.

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Installing the Digital Book
You must install this digital book before you can use
it in your Digital Book System®.
WARNING: Never install a digital book when your
Digital Book System is turned on. If you do, informa-
tion entered in other currently installed digital books
may be erased.
1. Turn off the Digital Book System®.
2. Install the digital book into a slot on the back.
3. Press
ON/OFF
.
4. If needed, adjust the screen contrast of your
Digital Book System.
If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.
5. Press
CARD
.
6. Press or to highlight the appropriate icon.
7. Press
ENTER
.
✓ Resuming Where You Left Off
When using this digital book, you can turn off
your Digital Book System at any time. When
you turn it on again, the screen that you last
viewed appears.

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Changing the Settings
You can change the type size, the default state, and
the shutoff time of this digital book.
The default state is the screen that appears whenever
you press
CLEAR
. The shutoff time is how long your
Digital Book System stays on if you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
MENU
.
3. Use the arrow keys to highlight Set Type Size ,
Set Default State , or Set Shutoff on the Setup menu.
4. Press
ENTER
to view its settings.
A check marks the current setting.
5. Highlight a new setting and then press
ENTER
.
Or press
BACK
to keep the current setting.
✓Viewing a Demonstration
You can see a brief demonstration of what this
digital book can do by highlighting View Demo
on the Setup menu and pressing
ENTER
. To stop
the demonstration, press
CLEAR
.
✓Following the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the bottom right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can press
to view more text.

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Using the Outline
The tables of the Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy are
listed in the Outline. Using the Outline, you can view
any row of any table. Here is how.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight the Outline.
Or press
CLEAR
if Outline menu is the default state.
3. Press or
DN
to highlight a table (e.g., 8A:
Antibacterial Agents—Adverse Reactions
).
Or simply type its number (e.g.,
8A ).
The indicates a lower level of the Outline.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Highlight a row heading (e.g., Quinolones ).
Type its first letters or scroll to it.
6. Press
ENTER
.
7. Highlight a subheading (e.g., Ofloxacin ).

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Using the Outline
8. Press
ENTER
.
9. Press or
DN
to read the table.
10. Press
SPEC
to go to the nearest Outline level.
11. Press
SPEC
again to back up through the Outline.
12. Press
CLEAR
to go back to the Outline.
✓Using the Outline Shortcuts
Use these keys and gold key combinations to
quickly move through the Outline:
To go to. . . Press. . .
the last or first + or
heading in an Outline level
the top level +
BACK
from any Outline level
a table from any heading +
ENTER
the nearest Outline level
SPEC
from a table
✓Help is Always at Hand
You can read a help message at virtually any
screen by pressing
HELP
. Press or
DN
to
read it. To exit help, press
BACK
.

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✓ Understanding the Outline
The tables listed on the Outline generally corre-
spond to the tables in the printed Guide to Anti-
microbial Therapy (1996 ed.). However, some
tables (e.g., Table 4) have been divided.
The submenus in the Outline usually list the
row headings and subheadings of a table.
Some row headings have been alphabetized or
rearranged for easier reference. The informa-
tion in each column is presented as text.
✓Finding Drug Equivalents
Table 25 in the Outline lists generic drugs and
their common trade names, and vice versa. To
find an equivalent, first select Table 25Aor 25B.
Then type a generic or trade name and press
ENTER
. To go back to the Outline, press
BACK
.
✓Finding Abbreviation Meanings
The last item listed on the Outline is the Ab-
breviations Glossary.
To use this glossary, highlight the Outline and
then hold and press . Next, press
ENTER
and type an abbreviation. Finally, press
ENTER
to view its meaning.
You can also view the Abbreviations Glossary by
selecting
Abbreviations from the Index.
Using the Outline

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Using the Index
You can quickly find a specific topic (e.g., an infec-
tion or drug) by selecting it from the Index. Usually
you need to type only the first few letters of a topic
to highlight it on the Index. Try this example.
1. Highlight the Index.
2. Start typing a word or phrase (e.g.,
hepatic abscess ).
To undo a letter, press
BACK
.
The indicates multiple references.
3. When the entry is highlighted, press
ENTER
.
4. Highlight a reference and then press
ENTER
.
5. Press or
DN
to read.
6. Press
BACK
repeatedly to go back to the Index.
7. Press
CLEAR
when you’re done.
✓Viewing Complete Menu Items
Some Index entries and other menu items are
too long to fit on one line. To view a full menu
item, highlight it and then press
? *
.

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Searching for Words
You can quickly find the occurrences, or “matches,” of
nearly any word or phrase in this book. For example,
you can look up an anatomic site, organism, or drug.
Your word searches can contain up to five words. This
searchwillfind matches regardlessoforderor proximity.You
can’tsearch for certain names and for very common words
such as
the and and .And you don’t need to type capitals.
1. Highlight Word Search on the Search menu
2. Press
ENTER
.
Or press
CLEAR
if Word Search is the default state.
3. Type one or more words (e.g.,
rheumatic fever ).
4. Press
ENTER
.
This is the Outline location of the first match.
5. Press
ENTER
to view the first match.

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Searching for Words
✓If You Misspell a Word
When you enter a misspelled search word, a list
of corrections appears.
Highlight a correction and then press
ENTER
to
search. Or press
BACK
to edit your search word(s).
The matching words are boxed.
6. Press plus
DN
to view the Outline locations
of the next matches.
To view a previous match, hold and press UP.
7. When Remaining matches in Index appears,
press
MENU
.
After entering a word search, only those tables and
Index entries with matches are listed on the Outline
and Index. The number of matches in each menu is
indicated.
8. Select an item from the Outline or Index.
9. When done, press
CLEAR
to clear your search.

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Searching for Words
✓Expanding Your Searches
You can expand a word search by pressing
MORE
up to five times after you have entered search
word(s). Each time that you press
MORE
, the previ-
ous matches are discarded and new matches, if
any, of synonyms and similar words are found.
For example, enter
kidney at the Word Search
screen. Then press
MORE
repeatedly. The search ex-
pands to find the matches for
renal and nephritis.
✓Changing Your Searches
After entering a word search, you can change
your search word(s) by pressing
MENU
and then
selecting Change Search Query from the Search
menu. Then type your changes.
For example, you may want to add search words
to a search that finds too many matches.
✓Searching for Parts of a Word
If you are not sure which form of a word to
search for, enter a word with one or more aster-
isks in place of missing letters (e.g.,
cyclo ✻ ). To
type an asterisk, hold
SHIFT
and press
? *
.
Then select a completion to search for it.

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Highlighting Search Words
You can also search for words by highlighting them
in a table. Remember, words such as the and of are
too common to search for. Try this example.
1. Highlight
4C: Features of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
Generation Cephalosporins
on the Outline.
2. Hold and press
ENTER
to go to the table.
3. Press
ENTER
to start the highlight.
You can turn off the highlight by pressing
BACK
.
4. Press the arrow keys to highlight
cephapirin .
5. Press
ENTER
to search for it.
6. Hold and press
DN
to view the Outline
locations of the next matches.
7. To select an item from the menus press
MENU
.
8. Press
CLEAR
when done.

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Reading the Tables
The tables of the printed Guide to Antimicrobial
Therapy (1996 edition) are presented in this digital
book as indented and bulleted text. The table titles
are boldfaced and row headings and subheadings
are bulleted and indented.
Once you’ve found a table using the Outline or the In-
dex, or by searching for words, you can read the table
using the Direction keys and gold key combinations.
Try this example.
1. Highlight
1: Empirical Antimicrobial Therapy on
Clinical Grounds
on the Outline.
2. Hold and press
ENTER
to go to the table.
3. Hold and press repeatedly to go to the
next row headings.
4. Hold and press
DN
repeatedly to go the next
row headings and subheadings.
5. Press or to scroll down or up.
6. Press
DN
or
UP
to page down or up.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.

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Reading the Tables
✓ Finding Your Location
When you’re reading a table, you can view the Outline
location of the current section by pressing
? *
.
Then press
BACK
to go back to the table.
Please note that when you press
? *
at a table,
you don’t go to the Outline itself but a snapshot
of your current location.
✓Going to the Outline from a Table
The quickest way to use the Outline when you’re
reading a table is to press
SPEC
. You’ll go to the
corresponding heading in the nearest level of the
Outline. Then you can use
SPEC
and the Direc-
tion keys to move through the Outline.
✓Viewing Abbreviation Meanings
Here is a quick way to view the meanings of
many abbreviations that you see in tables.
First, start the highlight in a table by pressing
ENTER
. Then use the arrow keys to highlight an
abbreviation. Finally, press
ENTER
to view its
meaning, if one is available. To go back to the
table, press
BACK
.

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Reading Footnotes and References
Throughout the tables of this digital book, you’ll see
these icons: bibliographic references,
footnotes,
cross-references.
To learn how to read them, try this example.
1. Select
5A: Methods for Penicillin
Desensitization
from the Outline.
To learn how, read “Using the Outline.”
2. Hold and press
ENTER
to go to the table.
3. Hold and press
ENTER
to highlight the .
Or press
ENTER
and use the arrow keys.
4. Press
ENTER
to view its bibliographic reference.
5. Press or
DN
to read it, if necessary.
You can highlight and read references in footnotes
by following Steps 3 and 5 above.
6. Press
BACK
to go back to the tables.