JAHCO, CMS, and hospital credentialing boards have already established required elements of the operative report; one of which is "implants". 

The implant's serial number is recorded into the EMR during the procedural encounter when the device is scanned into the EMR in the procedural area.  This information is then pulled into the templated operative report.

The "implant card" is given to the patient, usually by the perioperative nurses since this hard-copy is included on a limited paper chart that tends to go with the patient when the patient is moving from procedural area to recovery. 

The above is the current process. Of course finding historic records is limited by the hospital's record-keeping prior to widespread adoption of EMR's with "procedural encounter" environments.   

In the current era, the petitioner request is redundant.