Support for the Handling of Medical Instruments

A method for assisting in the handling of medical instruments, comprising the steps of:

• optically capturing an image of one or more medical instruments;
• generating an image signal representing the captured image;
• transmitting the image signal to an image evaluation device;
• evaluating the image signal with the image evaluation device in order to identify the medical instrument or instruments depicted in the image and generating identity data representing the identities of the identified medical instrument or instruments;
• transmitting identity data;
• storing the generated identity data in a memory permanently connected to an instrument carrier or comparing the generated identity data with identity data stored in the memory permanently connected to the instrument carrier.