🚨 AnKing ACLS Deck

Ahmed7 · November 3, 2025, 1:16pm

AnKing ACLS Deck Wiki

1. Goal & Purpose

Our goal is to create an BLS/PALS/ACLS deck based on the official 2025 AHA guidelines to help healthcare providers quickly review and retain the most important info for real-life emergencies. The goal is to make it clear, high-yield, and easy to use for anyone.

This will be a free deck, continuing our mission to make high-quality medical education available to everyone. The focus will be on algorithms, meds/dosages, rhythms, clinical scenarios, and more.

2. Deck Formatting, Source, & Suggestion Guidelines

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If your suggestions do not contain enough rationale and/or specific evidence, they will be automatically rejected.
We also reserve the right to not provide an explanation if we deem your suggestion violates our guidelines found on this page.
By submitting a suggestion, you agree to adhere to these rules and follow them stringently, and you acknowledge that failure to follow these rules will result in automatic rejection.

2.1) Source Guidelines

Acceptable sources include:

Official AHA guidelines

Unacceptable sources include:

First Aid, Wikipedia, or any textbook not officially from AHA
Pathoma, B&B, Bootcamp, Sketchy, Osmosis
UWorld, NBMEs, AMBOSS questions

2.2) Rationale Guidelines

Your rationale should provide reasoning for why this specific change should be added and/or why it would benefit all users of this deck.
If you believe this change benefits you, your next question should be “will the majority of users on AnkiHub like/want this change? Is it useful to them? or is it only useful to me?”
You should aim to give as much supporting information as possible(quotations, sources, explanations).
Make a really strong case for your suggestion and avoid ambiguous statements.
1-3 word rationales are generally NOT accepted
Please be extremely thorough as this will give us more explanation to hopefully accept/reject your suggestion. Usually, the longer and more detailed the rationale, the better.
If there is no rationale provided, or the one provided is not sufficient, then your suggestion will be automatically rejected (with OR without explanation)

Examples of bad rationales

“This is wrong, please change this”

“I believe this is incorrect, according to this document (linked) in page 4, it says “direct quotation” whereas this card says “direct quotation”. I’ve checked other sources and I believe this is an appropriate change.

“Added cloze”

“I added a cloze because this information is very important in real life. Its very easy to glance over this fact and not remember it, so I think adding a cloze here would be benefitial to most people using this deck, without increasing card burden unnecessarily”

2.3) Deck Formatting Guidelines

2.3a) Adding images

What Licenses Can I Use?

If you are adding a new image, please only use an image with a creative commons license or is in the public domain

Accepted licenses: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND
Non-acceptable licenses: CC-NC, CC BY-NC

If you are creating your own illustration/diagram, please first reach out to ahmed@ankihub.net.

Image Suggestion Checklist

Please ensure the following when adding an image from the Web, or your suggestion will be rejected:

The image is added to the extra or text and nowhere else
The font size is 10
The citation is italicized
Image is in JPEG/JPG format ideally
Image is resized to an acceptable size (its should be around 500 px - 900 px in width, the maximum width size should not exceed 1500px.)
Image is public domain/ has a creative common license that does not contain “NC” or “Non-Commercial”
Image is cited properly like how other cards are in the deck, in general follow this format → Photo credit: Author name (hyperlinked to website), Creative Commons/Public Domain Hyperlink, via website/journal name
Please ensure the image does NOT exceed 1mb. Ideally it is under 500 kb

Citation formatting should look like this:

2.3b) Period formatting

No cards in the deck end in periods, and most free sentences do not (unless it is a block of text explanation that requires multiple sentences in extra)

2.3c) Capitalizations

Please maintain consistent capitalization. Example: I am a Deck Maintainer → should be → I am a deck maintainer. Capitals are only for names and the start of sentences

Capitalization in extra

Please capitalize the first letter of each sentence in the extra section

2.3d) Bolding, Underlining, & Italics

Bolding and such should be used to draw your eyes. Our eyes go to bold first, then underline, then italics.
It is best to tend to bold only the main subject and underline or italicize other important details.
Italics can easily go unnoticed, particularly if you don’t use custom coloring.
Use underlining sparingly!

2.3e) Dashes in Extra

Whenever there are TWO or more sentences in the extra section. Add a dash at the start of the example, instead of:

The heart is a pump
The heart is approximately 300 grams

It should be:

- The heart is a pump
- The heart is approximately 300 grams

2.3f) One-by-one cards

Feel free to submit suggestions to make cards one-by-one, however, please reference these guidelines:

The general rules for one-by-one are as follows:

The cards need to be able to be recalled in order - this means that there needs to be a mnemonic or a sequence of treatment
The 5 P’s of pheochromocytoma can NOT be one-by-one because they all start with P and it will be impossible to do “ordered recall”
One by one notes should not be done for cards that have 2-3 clozes, unless they are mnemonics

Please user the wrapper meta-addon to apply the “mnemonics” styling to the 1by1 card so they can be left-justified

Wrapper meta add-on: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/396502676

3. Maintainers & Contributors

A huge thank you to the amazing maintainers for the creation and maintenance of this deck!

@TheAnKing, @ahmed7, @sameem, @beejumm, @marcoszan, @niki1102, @jwill, @mitchelnelson, @caleb_meadows, @mathieu, @zarathustra

4. Disclaimer