Kidneys from deceased donors experience significantly longer ischemic times during preservation and transport compared to living donor kidneys.

“and that interval of time can be six to 48 72 hours in some circumstances as opposed to a living donor elective operation side by side or sequential operating rooms you know the the uh that kidney is in a healthy environment with a healthy normal person normal vital signs we dissect out the kidney clamp the blood vessels take it out of the body flush it walk it over to the recipient's room and sometimes it's sewn in in under an hour you know so the time the ischemic time from coming out of the donor's body to into the recipient and it turns out that ischemic period is critical”