A surgical instrument placement tool (1) for holding tools for angiographic procedures in the fields of invasive radiology, vascular surgery and cardiology, comprising: a surgical drape (10) arranged to cover a patient (2) of average size from at least the groin down to the region of the feet of the patient when the patient is lying with spread legs, and to arrange for a placement surface (13) a pouch member (20), having a generally horizontal, upwardly exposed, bottom surface (27), which pouch member (20) is attached to a foot end (12) of the surgical drape (10) to extend below the spread legs of the patient (2), preferably projecting horizontally beyond the feet of the lying average size patient (2), said pouch member (20) having a vertical wall portion (28) providing a double curvature bottom surface (21) and an edge (22) that provides for exposing a portion of said upwardly exposed bottom surface (27) of the pouch member (20), and, preferably a plurality of tool holders (3031) attached to an upwardly exposed surface of the surgical drape (10) and extending in a direction across a space between the spread legs of the patient (2).
