Lithium and Lamictal both have a half-life of about a day, hence, 5 days and either is out of your bloodstream (or, at a steady state). Abilify, by contrast, has a half-life of 75 hours, so it takes about 2 weeks either to reach a steady level or to leave your system.
According to the CDC, sepsis one of the top 10 causes of death in the US. Often, people can recover from early to mild sepsis, but there is a 50% mortality rate for those that develop late severe sepsis.
Who gets sepsis? Anyone can get sepsis. The people at highest risk are infants, children, the elderly, and people who have serious injuries or medical problems such as diabetes, AIDS, cancer, or liver disease. How many people get sepsis? Severe sepsis strikes more than a million Americans every year, 1 and 15 to 30 percent of those people die. The number of sepsis cases per year has been on the rise in the United States. 2 This is likely due to several factors: There is increased awareness and tracking of sepsis.