Andrew Petrosoniak

MD, MSc (Med Ed), FRCPC

Investigator

Biography

Dr. Andrew Petrosoniak is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has completed a Master of Science in medical education where he focused on the use of in situ simulation (practice in the actual workplace) in procedural skill acquisition.

Dr. Petrosoniak’s field of research includes in situ simulation and simulation-based technical skill acquisition. His work focuses on usability testing and the identification of personnel- and systems-based safety threats within acute care medicine. He is the principal investigator of the TRUST study (Trauma Resuscitation Using in Situ simulation for Team Training) that includes a partnership with human factors experts to evaluate systems and processes during high-stakes trauma simulations.

Dr. Petrosoniak is the Co-Director of the Annual Critical Care Skills Course for the FRCP Emergency Medicine residents designed to enhance skill acquisition for rarely performed and high-stakes technical skills. He regularly lectures and instructs simulation sessions for the EM residency program.

He is an invited speaker both nationally and internationally on the topics of trauma, simulation and procedural skill acquisition.

Recent Publications

  1. Rotin, LE, Pavenski, K, Petrosoniak, A. Simulation-based medical education in transfusion medicine: Current state and future applications. Transfus Apher Sci. 2023;62 (1):103628. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2022.103628. PubMed PMID:36586811 .
  2. Petrosoniak, A, Li, W, Hicks, C. Just the facts: massive hemorrhage protocol. CJEM. 2023;25 (2):115-117. doi: 10.1007/s43678-022-00423-9. PubMed PMID:36469240 .
  3. Petrosoniak, A, Pavenski, K, da Luz, LT, Callum, J. Massive Hemorrhage Protocol: A Practical Approach to the Bleeding Trauma Patient. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2023;41 (1):51-69. doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2022.09.010. PubMed PMID:36424044 .
  4. Petrosoniak, A, Gabriel, J, Purdy, E. Stop asking if it works, start making it happen: exploring barriers to clinical event debriefing in the ED. CJEM. 2022;24 (7):673-674. doi: 10.1007/s43678-022-00396-9. PubMed PMID:36274091 .
  5. Truchot, J, Boucher, V, Li, W, Martel, G, Jouhair, E, Raymond-Dufresne, É et al.. Is in situ simulation in emergency medicine safe? A scoping review. BMJ Open. 2022;12 (7):e059442. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059442. PubMed PMID:36219737 PubMed Central PMC9301797.
  6. Dinh, A, Chan, TM, Caners, K, Hall, AK, Petrosoniak, A, Chaplin, T et al.. The Future of Emergency Medicine (EM) Sim Cases: A Modified Massive Online Needs Assessment. Cureus. 2022;14 (7):e26799. doi: 10.7759/cureus.26799. PubMed PMID:35971371 PubMed Central PMC9372375.
  7. Petrosoniak, A, Welsher, A, Hicks, C. Tubes, lines, and videotape: a new era for quality and safety in trauma resuscitation. CJEM. 2022;24 (4):351-352. doi: 10.1007/s43678-022-00323-y. PubMed PMID:35699919 .
  8. Baletic, N, Riggs, J, Lebovic, G, Petrosoniak, A, Dumas, RP, Nolan, B et al.. Introducing the Safety Threats and Adverse events in Trauma (STAT) taxonomy: standardized classification system for evaluating safety during trauma resuscitation. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2022;48 (6):4775-4781. doi: 10.1007/s00068-022-02007-9. PubMed PMID:35670817 .
  9. Nolan, B, Petrosoniak, A, Hicks, CM, Cripps, MW, Dumas, RP. Defining adverse events during trauma resuscitation: a modified RAND Delphi study. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2021;6 (1):e000805. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2021-000805. PubMed PMID:34746435 PubMed Central PMC8527130.
  10. da Luz, LT, Callum, J, Beckett, A, Hucke, HP, Carroll, J, Grewal, D et al.. Protocol for a multicentre, randomised, parallel-control, superiority trial comparing administration of clotting factor concentrates with a standard massive haemorrhage protocol in severely bleeding trauma patients: the FiiRST 2 trial (a 2020 EAST multicentre trial). BMJ Open. 2021;11 (9):e051003. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051003. PubMed PMID:34479938 PubMed Central PMC8420689.
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Affiliations & Other Activities

  • Emergency Physician & Trauma Team Leader, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto