Backup surgical instrument system and method

A method of preparing a surgical instrumentation package for use during a surgical procedure, the method comprising:

• evaluating bone or joint image files of a patient including a bone or joint for repairing during a surgical procedure to determine bone or tissue that needs to be removed, restored or repaired during the surgical procedure;
• preparing a preliminary pre-operative surgical plan for evaluating the bone or joint, the pre-operative surgical plan including information stored in a non-transitory tangible storage medium for:
• multiple accepted procedures among several alternative accepted procedures for performing the surgical procedure;
• multiple surgical tasks such as those for performing various bone resections;
• various sizes and types of implants;
• and
• multiple accepted instruments from among several alternative accepted instruments for performing an equivalent surgical task;
• selecting a final pre-operative surgical plan from the preliminary pre-operative surgical plan, the final pre-operative surgical plan including:
• a surgeon-specific procedure selected from the multiple accepted procedures;
• a surgeon-specific task for performing one of the various bone resections;
• a surgeon-selected implant for use with the one of the various bone resections;
• and
• a surgeon-specific instrument selected from the multiple accepted instruments;
• packaging the surgeon-specific instrument along with other general surgical instruments required to complete the surgeons-specific procedure into a single package;
• and
• individually packaging one of the multiple accepted instruments from among several alternative accepted instruments for performing an equivalent surgical task not selected to be the surgeon-specific instrument in a backup instrument package separate from the single package.