Abstract: A surgical clip that is used to temporary occlude a blood vessel of a patient. The clip has a pair of longitudinally extending members that are spring biased to a closed position to squeeze therebetween the blood vessel of the patient. The members have a first region adjacent the biasing spring and extend to mating clamping surface regions where the blood vessel is positioned. There is an angular offset between the first region and the clamping surface regions for convenience in positioning the surgical clip. In another embodiment, there is a L-shaped surgical clip that is dimensioned so as to temporary occlude a plurality of vessels simultaneously. There is also a container that is customized to provide certain sizes and quantities of surgical clips for a particular surgical procedure and a method of determining those clips for the convenience of the surgeon in carrying out the procedure.