Professor Timothy J Coats
Professor of Emergency Medicine
BSc (Psychology) 1983, University of London
MB BS, 1986, University of London
FRCS (Eng), 1990
FFAEM 1996
MD, 1997, University of London
Email: tc61@le.ac.uk
Address: Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester,
Level G, Jarvis Building RMO, Infirmary Square, Leicester, LE1 5WW
For general enquiries, please email the secretary, Elizabeth Cadman, or telephone 0116 258 5965
Research Interests
- Diagnostics and monitoring in Emergency Care
- Coagulation following injury
- Predictive modeling of outcome following injury
External Positions
Chair FAEM Research Committee 2000-2009
Chair Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN)
Chair NIHR Injuries and Emergencies National Specialist Group
Key Publications
CRASH-2 collaborators, Roberts I, Shakur H, Afolabi A, Brohi K, Coats T, Dewan Y, Gando S, Guyatt G, Hunt BJ, Morales C, Perel P, Prieto-Merino D, Woolley T. The importance of early treatment with tranexamic acid in bleeding trauma patients: an exploratory analysis of the CRASH-2 randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2011 Mar 26 377 9771 1096-101
Roberts I, Shakur H, Ker K, Coats T; CRASH-2 Trial collaborators. Antifibrinolytic drugs for acute traumatic injury. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Jan 19 1
Goodacre SW, Bradburn M, Cross E, Collinson P, Gray A, Hall AS; RATPAC Research Team. The Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac Markers (RATPAC) trial: a randomised controlled trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in the emergency department. Heart. 2011 Feb 97 3 190-6
CRASH-2 trial collaborators, Shakur H, Roberts R, Bautista R, Caballero J, Coats T, Dewan Y, El-Sayed H, Gogichaishvili T, Gupta S, Herrera J, Hunt B, Iribhogbe P, Izurieta M, Khamis H, Komolafe E, Marrero MA, Mejía-Mantilla J, Miranda J, Morales C, Olaomi O, Olldashi F, Perel P, Peto R, Ramana PV, Ravi RR, Yutthakasemsunt S.
Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2010 Jul 3;376(9734):23-32. Epub 2010 Jun 14
Vorwerk C, Loryman B, Coats TJ, Stephenson JA, Gray LD, Reddy G, Florence L, Butler N. Prediction of mortality in adult emergency department patients with sepsis. Emerg Med J. 2009 Apr 26 4 254-8
Schetinin V, Fieldsend JE, Partridge D, Coats TJ, Krzanowski WJ, Everson RM, Bailey TC, Hernandez A. Confident interpretation of Bayesian decision tree ensembles for clinical applications. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2007 May 11 3 312-9
Spahn DR, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Fernández-Mondéjar E, Gordini G, Stahel PF, Hunt BJ, Komadina R, Neugebauer E, Ozier Y, Riddez L, Schultz A, Vincent JL, Rossaint R; Task Force for Advanced Bleeding Care in Trauma. Management of bleeding following major trauma: a European guideline. Crit Care. 2007 11 1 R17
Shakur H, Roberts I, Barnetson L, Coats T. Clinical trials in emergency situations. BMJ. 2007 Jan 27 334 7586 165-6
Brohi K, Singh J, Heron M, Coats T. Acute traumatic coagulopathy. J Trauma. 2003 Jun 54 6 1127-30
Becalick DC, Coats TJ. Comparison of artificial intelligence techniques with UKTRISS for estimating probability of survival after trauma. UK Trauma and Injury Severity Score. J Trauma. 2001 Jul 51 1 123-33
