Surgical needle retaining and inventory pad, and accounting method

摘要

A pad of resilient material through which needles can be inserted is provided with consecutively numbered needle receiving zones formed by ridges upstanding from an upper face of the pad, and by transversely extending lines across the ridges. This enables an accurate method of counting the needles used in the surgery because a needle used by the surgeon can be positioned in a zone by insertion through the adjacent ridge enabling an accurate count of the needles by merely glancing at the pad.