Storage unit, set and surgical container

The surgical item container set containing:

• at least one storage unit for storing and/or making available at least one carrier for at least one surgical item, and
• at least one carrier for at least one surgical item,
• wherein the carrier can be brought to a holding position and to a release position, the carrier being held by the storage unit in the holding position and being released or releasable from the storage unit in the release position,
• the storage unit has at least one release part, and the carrier can be brought from the holding position to the release position by actuation of the release part, thereby allowing the carrier to be removed from the storage unit,
• the storage unit has at least one guide rail along which the carrier is arranged to be movable in a guide direction,
• the storage unit is designed in such a way that the carrier, in the release position, can be released from the storage unit by movement in a removal direction which is substantially perpendicular to the guide direction,
• the storage unit is designed in such a way that only in a removal area, which forms a part of the storage unit, can the carrier be brought from the holding position to the release position by actuation of the release part,
• the removal area is arranged in an end area of the guide rail,
• the guide rail contains only a single removal area, this single removal area is arranged in the end area of the guide rail, and only in this single removal area, the carrier can be brought from the holding position to the release position by actuation of the release part, and
• the surgical item container set further comprises an actuating element, upon actuation of which the release part is actuated, and the actuating element comprises a cover plate which shows information identifying the surgical item.