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Thomson Micromedex ®
Healthcare Series (HCS)
Updated 2007 Version
FMH Training module
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Table of Contents
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Healthcare Series Interface
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Drugs Tab: Compare Drug Summaries and Therapeutic Classes
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Drugs/Toxicology Tabs: Drug Identification and Toxic Substance List
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IV Compatibility Tab
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Patient Education Tab
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Handheld Tab: mobileMICROMEDEX
As of January 1, Micromedex will have a new look and many new features!
Please take a few minutes and review this PowerPoint in order
to familiarize yourself with the many exciting changes.
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This is the new main page
for Micromedex.
You can go to the Healthcare
Series or directly to
Carenotes by clicking one of
the blue buttons on the
upper right side of the page.
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The Healthcare Series Interface
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HealthCare Series Interface: Main screen – Keyword Search page
The Keyword Search defaults to
“Exactly Match” for quicker
access to desired results.
For this example,
search on Warfarin.
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Drugs Tab:
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Compare Drug Summaries
and Therapeutic Classes
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Drugs Tab drop-down menu
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Toxicology Tab:
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Drug Identification and
Toxic Substance List
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Drug Identification: IDENTIDEX can be searched from either
the Drugs or Toxicology tab.
The search defaults to a standard IDENTIDEX Imprint Code search,
or the user can search on Images by Imprint and/or physical
description such as Pattern, Shape, and Colors. Here, search on All
Patterns, Five-sided, and Blue. Click on “Search.”
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IV Compatibility Tab
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IV Compatibility: IV Index allows for both single drug and multiple drug compatibility
searches. The default is a single drug search. Word wheel functionality allows for easy
look up of (hard-to-spell) drug names.
Type in a few letters of the name
and it jumps to the appropriate
place in the list of drugs, which
includes both trade and generic
names. Click on “Check
Compatibility” to initiate the search.
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IV Compatibility (continued): The default for single drug search results is Solution compatibility. Other
information provided for single drug searches is for Y-Site, Admixture, Syringe, and TPN/TNA compatibility.
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IV Compatibility (continued): Clicking the hypertext-linked solution names (D5W, in this case) will take
you to the Compatibility Details screen, with detailed information on every test conducted with the drug you
searched on and the solution you chose.
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IV Compatibility (continued): Performing a multiple drug search.
Type in the first few
letters of the names of
each of the drugs that
you will be searching
and click “Add” to place
them in the search box
on the right side of the
screen.
Select multiple drugs at
once by using the
Control key and then
clicking “Add.”
Once you have chosen
your drugs, click “Check
Compatibility” to initiate
the search.
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IV Compatibility (continued): The default for a multiple drug search is Y-Site Compatibility.
To modify your search, click the
button at the top of any page.
Click the hypertext-linked name of
a combination to drill down to the
detailed results.
At the top of the page, there are
hypertext-linked names of each of
the drugs on which you searched.
Clicking any of these names will
initiate a single drug compatibility
search for that drug with the
default being Solution.
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In cases where results may differ, a
NOTES field (red-text) provides the
user with possible reasons for the
differing results.
Admixture and syringe compatibility
searches work in exactly the same
manner as the Y-Site searches.
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IV Compatibility (continued): Clicking the hypertext-linked combination
of Cefazolin Sodium – Vancomycin Hydrochloride yields the following
detailed results.
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5 Patient Education Tab:
CareNotes
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Access through Patient
Education Tab
or
Access through
Carenotes System
button on main page
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Patient Education - Searching
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Type your term, then
click “Search.”
You can narrow your search
by selecting a document type
in the “Narrow this search
to:” box.
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Patient Education - Searching (continued)
Matching titles are displayed. Click
the appropriate link to locate a
specific document.
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Drug Titles are
displayed below the
Care and Condition
titles.
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Handheld PDA Tab:
mobileMICROMEDEX
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Download mobileMICROMEDEX to your PDA: Click the handheld PDA tab on the
Healthcare Series main screen to retrieve the Web address and Customer Number for
your FREE download. Then simply follow the instructions. After your initial download,
updates occur when you sync.
Download
mobileMICROMEDEX
anytime, anywhere…from
work, the office, or at
home.
Download mobileMICROMEDEX to
your PDA - FREE.
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mobileMICROMEDEX offers:
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• Drug information
• Diagnosis tool
• Acute care information
• Toxicology information
• Alternative medicine information
• Drug interaction tool
(included with DRUG-REAX ® )
• Formulary tool
(included with Formulary Advisor ® )
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