[Outpatient surgery in proctology]

Proctological surgery can be carried out increasingly on an outpatient basis and thus more cost-effectively. The reasons for this are, in addition to modern anaesthetic procedures, short operation times and low complication rates in numerous proctological operations. Fissurectomies, individual haemorrhoidectomies, operations on uncomplicated fistulae and benign anal tumours only rarely need to be carried out nowadays under inpatient conditions. The conditions for successful outpatient surgery are: appropriate diagnosis of the indication, selection of the patients with respect to their suitability for surgery and standardised follow-up care.