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.
But the most unexpected finding from the study was that sepsis represented the leading cause of 30-day readmissions in the U.S. Coupled with this finding, data also indicated that readmissions after treatment for sepsis were also more costly when compared to readmissions after heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and COPD.