曾主演過多部大片包括「龍卷風」、「鐵達尼號」、「魔鬼終結者」以及「異形2」，享有災難片天王美譽的好萊塢男星比爾派斯頓，因為手術引發的並發症而過世，享年61歲，家人也已經出麵證實此事。
Though cases like this are rare, they do happen. The most recent data available suggests that in the U.S., 1.14 percent of patients who go in for surgery never leave the hospital.
But a new study on surgery death rates in Europe, published Thursday in the journal Lancet, may have medical experts wondering whether this figure isn't higher in the U.S.
Researchers in the United Kingdom looked at more than 46,000 patients in 28 European countries who underwent non-cardiac surgery.
They found that 4 percent of them died before they could make it out of the hospital, a figure much higher than previous national estimates for many countries.
In the UK alone, the death rate was 3.6 percent; the previous estimate was 1 percent.
