A surgical instrumentation system has a single-use instrument kit for fitting implants and at least one sterile implant kit, each of the kits comprising an identifier, at least one of the kits contains a unique identifier, as well as a medium for recording additional identifiers, one of the additional identifiers being a patient code, collected when the kit is used, and at least one other additional identifier being the identifier of at least one complementary kit comprising an identifier transferable to the additional-identifier recording medium, when the complementary kit is used. A method for implementing such a system is also described.
