[Day surgery of hernia].

Introduction: Reduced economic resources have been a stimulus for increased day-case surgery, and an incentive for improving surgical technique and anaesthetic methods. In hernia surgery it is important to avoid recurrence and reoperation, which seems to be more easily achieved by the use of mesh prosthetics. For anaesthesia, costs may possibly be reduced by the use of spinal blockade instead of general anaesthesia, but also local infiltration anaesthesia is regaining popularity.