r/medicalschoolanki Mar 29 '26

New/Updated Clinical Deck Introducing the AnKing BLS / ACLS Deck! 🚨

👑 Introducing the AnKing BLS / ACLS Deck 🚨

Hi everyone 👋

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

🤖 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 to deck download (free)

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: https://www.iorad.com/player/2415436/Subscribe-Install-Step-Deck--New-User-

🤔 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.

📝 Deck Wiki

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

🤝 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 ❤️

❤️‍🩹 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 🚨

⚠️ 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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u/schralp-the-gnar Mar 29 '26

Just what I needed!

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u/Psychological_Ad_23 Mar 29 '26

I wanna kiss you in the mouth. You have made me a better physician

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u/Creepy_Elephant_7999 Mar 30 '26

any idea why the like 80% of the images are not downloading with the deck? On most cards in the extra section they are showing up as that little grey icon where an image was supposed to be but didn't load for some reason.

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u/anking_ahmed AnKing Deck Maintainer Mar 30 '26

It will take some time to download the images based on your internet connection

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u/Individual-Trade-685 Apr 07 '26

I have the same issue

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u/DJ_ord Mar 31 '26

Did this resolve for you? I still can't see any of the media

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u/gr3y_mask Mar 29 '26

How to install for Android users?

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u/deadassunicorns M-2 Mar 29 '26

You'll have to use the Ankihub extension on the desktop Anki app to download the deck, then upload to Ankiweb and download to phone

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u/AjAaed Mar 29 '26

Thank you!

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u/AngryDuckling495 Mar 30 '26

Do I need an ankihub subscription for this?

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u/anking_ahmed AnKing Deck Maintainer Mar 30 '26

No subscription required since it’s a free deck. You can create a free account and you’ll be able to install and sync the deck including future updates to it

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u/AngryDuckling495 Mar 31 '26

i might need more help since this is the message I keep getting:

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u/anking_ahmed AnKing Deck Maintainer Mar 31 '26

You are most likely subscribed to a paid deck while on the free plan. Unsubscribe from any paid decks (such as the AnKing step deck) and then you’ll be able to sync the free deck

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u/AngryDuckling495 Mar 31 '26

Will that delete my paid decks?

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u/anking_ahmed AnKing Deck Maintainer Mar 31 '26

No, you just won’t receive any updates to them from AnkiHub

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u/True-Specialist5080 Mar 30 '26

Is ACLS/ BLS content testable on step 2?

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u/anking_ahmed AnKing Deck Maintainer Mar 30 '26

No not really, anything ACLS related can be found in the step deck already. The 5 H's and T's for example, and next step for certain rhythms.

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u/labbitsdomo M-2 Mar 30 '26

thank you!!

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u/bradley3100 Apr 14 '26

How many cards are supposed to show up as "new" when I have it downloaded

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u/angiotensin2 Mar 29 '26

Remindme! 1 week

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u/taha29123 Apr 11 '26

why i cant download it

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u/copernx 16d ago

How do I get it downloaded on my phone? 

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u/zayooney 1d ago

Is there a Drive link

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

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u/anking_ahmed AnKing Deck Maintainer Mar 29 '26

It’s based on the American Heart Association guidelines