Surgical tray efficiency system and related methods

A method for organizing surgical instrumentation using multiple location identifiers that are presented in association with multiple surgical instrument trays, a sterile barrier on which the multiple surgical instrument trays are placed, and a representation by a computing system of the multiple surgical instrument trays, the method comprising:

• depicting, on a user interface of the computing system, the representation of the multiple surgical instrument trays, including multiple graphical elements that each represent a surgical instrument tray of the multiple surgical instrument trays and that are arranged in the user interface according to a planned arrangement of the multiple surgical instrument trays on the sterile barrier, the computing system presenting each of the multiple graphical elements in association with a corresponding location identifier of the multiple location identifiers;
• placing the sterile barrier over one or more surfaces that are configured to hold surgical instrument trays, to form a physical barrier between the one or more surfaces and a sterile field of an operating room in which the one or more surfaces are located, wherein the sterile barrier includes multiple location identifiers that each indicate a location at which a corresponding surgical instrument tray of the multiple surgical instrument trays is to be placed according to the planned arrangement of the multiple surgical instrument trays, wherein each of the multiple surgical instrument trays includes therewith a corresponding location identifier of the multiple location identifiers;
• placing the multiple surgical instrument trays on the sterile barrier according to the planned arrangement of the multiple surgical instrument trays, so that each of the multiple surgical instrument trays is placed at a location on the sterile barrier indicated by a location identifier on the sterile barrier that corresponds to the location identifier included with the respective surgical instrument tray, wherein each of the multiple surgical instrument trays that is placed on the sterile period includes multiple surgical instruments;
• receiving, by the computing system, user input that specifies a name for a named surgical instrument;
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• presenting, by the computing system responsive to the computing system receiving the user input that specifies the name for the named surgical instrument, a location identifier of the multiple location identifiers that corresponds to a first surgical instrument tray of the multiple surgical instrument trays on which the named surgical instrument is located.