What I do.

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Inspired by these pictures I found in a desk at work of SPD, I thought I'd take my own. These pictures are from 1970, I think. I'm sure glad we don't have to dress like that!
In SPD, we get dirtied instruments from surgery. We clean them up in decontamination, getting rid of any blood, bone or other gross stuff that may be on the instruments. Some of the surgeons are REALLY messy, but most are not so bad.

Once they are cleaned, they are sent through a hot water bath, and into the clean room, where they are sorted and packaged up. This is a tray that needs to be sorted and put together nice and organized.
Some trays are really complicated and heavy. This one is way beyond me yet. These trays were for a hip surgery which uses a LOT of instruments and drills.
Once the tools are packaged up either in metal pans, or wrapped, they are put on a cart and sent into either a steam sterilizer, or a gas sterilizer depending on what they are.
They trays and instruments are cooled then put in cabinets until they are needed for a case. Then they are put on these carts with whatever other supplies they need and sent down the little clean elevator directly to surgery. When they are done, they send the cart up the dirty elevator in decontamination and it starts all over again.