Patent ID: 8777006

Claim:
A surgical patty manager for retaining a plurality of surgical patties, comprising: a first tray defining a dispensing region and a string guide, the dispensing region including a first plurality of patty retention elements adapted to retain unused surgical patties and a dispensing indicia associated with each of the first plurality of patty retention elements, and the string guide defining a channel extending longitudinally along a portion of the first tray and a protrusion extending partially over a portion of the string guide; a plurality of unused surgical patties retained in the first plurality of patty retention elements, each of the unused surgical patties having an associated string routed through the string guide; and a second tray movably coupled to the first tray, the second tray defining a recovery region including a second plurality of patty retention elements adapted to receive used surgical patties and a recovery indicia associated with each of the second plurality of patty retention elements, each recovery indicia for the second plurality of patty retention elements having a corresponding dispending indicia associated with one of the first plurality of patty retention elements.