Over the last 10 years, advances in technology and efforts to improve cost-effectiveness have allowed many endourological procedures to no longer require hospital admission. The benefits of outpatient surgery include cost savings for the health care system and reduced morbidity for the patient.1 The endoscopic management of ureteral and kidney stones on an outpatient basis is well established and widely practiced worldwide.2-4 In the field of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) surgery, technological advances have resulted in many surgical procedures available so that the choice of the device is often linked to surgeon preference. These differences may in part explain the low quality of evidence exploring the safety of surgical procedures for BPH in the outpatient setting and therefore the lack of specific recommendations from urological societies.