Introducing the AnKing BLS / ACLS Deck! 🚨

:crown: Introducing the AnKing BLS / ACLS Deck :police_car_light:

Hi everyone :waving_hand:

The AnKing maintainer team are excited to announce the public release of the free AnKing BLS / ACLS deck on AnkiHub! After months and months of hard work and coordination, we’ve put together a brand new deck created by the maintainers for all of you to use and benefit from.

Our goal was to create an BLS/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. We also aimed for it to be short and not overly bloated with details. As of this post, the deck is 286 cards (228 notes)

This is a 100% 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.

The deck is on AnkiHub for continued updates, improvements, and fixes, especially for future AHA guideline changes, and it is available on the free plan.

Deck Overview

Card Example

Tag Hierarchy

:robot: How do I download this deck?

If you’d like to download it, make a free account on AnkiHub if you don’t have one already, then click subscribe to deck below:

:link: Link to deck download (free): Sign In

After that, make sure to install the AnkiHub add-on in Anki, login, then click sync.

This tutorial is for the installing the Step deck, but is the same process for any deck on AnkiHub: Subscribe/Install Step Deck (New User)

:thinking: How should I use this deck?

This deck is a community-created supplement to the official AHA ACLS guidelines and courses. It is not a substitute for them. You should first learn the material from a primary resource and, ideally, complete an AHA-certified BLS and/or ACLS course. After certification, this deck can be used to reinforce knowledge and maintain familiarity with key facts and algorithms.

Only unsuspend cards that are relevant to your needs. For example, if you are focusing on BLS, only unsuspend cards within the BLS tag. If you do not anticipate managing neonatal resuscitation for example, there is no need to unsuspend those cards.

:memo: Deck Wiki

The wiki covers more details, including what’s included and tag hierarchy, please make sure to check it out: LINK

:handshake: Feedback & Suggestions

As always, all and any feedback is appreciated. If you’d like to help out, feel free to suggest changes to the deck on AnkiHub and we will review them!

The deck is not perfect so any suggestions are welcome (make sure to follow the guidelines with source and rationales found in the wiki)

Anyways, we don’t want to make this announcement too long, we want you to try it out yourself! We hope you enjoy :heart:

:mending_heart: Acknowledgements

A huge thank you to the following maintainers for making this possible!

Ahmed Khudair, Andrew Mathias, Caleb Meadows, Ian Sellars, Justin Williams, Marcos Zan, Mathieu Colbert, Mitchel Nelson, Mohannad Khaled, Mujeeb Mohammed, Nicholas Flint, Nikolaus Clodi, Sameem Arif, Shmuel Sashitzky, Victor Sabalski

Best,
AnKing ACLS Deck Maintainers :police_car_light:

:warning: Notes & Disclaimers

  • This deck is separate to the AnKing Step deck and was not created in relation to the USMLE Step exams
  • This deck is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the American Heart Association in any way.
  • Disclaimer
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That’s phenomenal thank you so much

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Hello I downloaded the deck, but no images seen.

Any help?

@zahi.hamdan Please wait and let the images sync from AnkiHub, once a full sync is complete, the images will be available.

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Hey AnkiHub
Thanks for your work
But I seem to have problem
There’s no pictures for some reason
I tried to sync but it didn’t work because my subscription ended

Hi there! I’m afraid that I cannot seem to find the Anki deck though I’m paying for this. Could someone please help me?

@motlak_safadi When downloading it on desktop, it will take around 10 minutes or less for the images to sync as well.

Check if they are present on your desktop/laptop and make sure when you click Sync, that the sync finishes completely.

Then sync on your device and you will see the images

You can find it here: Sign In

@motlak_safadi I was having the same issue. For me it was because of the special fields add on

Hi, I subscribed to the deck, closed and reopened Anki on my desktop, and still could not find the deck via the tags. Is it exclusive to paying members? Thank you for your help

It is free so you don’t need to pay to see it.

Can you confirm you have done the following?

  1. You have downloaded the ankihub addon and signed in
  2. You have subscribed to the deck you want
  3. You have clicked sync in Anki and clicked install
  4. You clicked upload to ankiweb if prompted in Anki

Hi @Ahmed7 I had for some reason disabled the add-on way before and enabling it fixed it; thank you for your help!

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Hello, I tried again. I’m not sure what’s happening but whenever I download it, it keeps showing 0 cards. I’m using the exact steps talked about on the website for issues like this

Can you take a screenshot of your Anki? What steps have you followed?

Checking your account, I don’t believe you are subscribed to the deck yet. Can you double check if you’ve subscribed to the ACLS deck here: Sign In

So I still have no pictures
I think the problem is that I can’t sync
Not sure why but
When I try to press sync on the laptop
It refuse and show this message

I think that happened because previously I had the scholarship for the 6 month
And after it finished no it’s required me to pay so I can sync
I’m not sure how to solve this

i also deleted the special fields add on and still the same

(attachments)

The pop up “the action you are trying to perform requires an active membership.” is because you are on a free account but are trying to sync a paid deck.

On our end, it appears that you are subscribed to many paid decks, which is causing this issue to occur.

Either unsubscribe from the paid decks to be able to sync, or purchase a subscription. Then you’ll be able to sync.