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 .