### Question
How is the "withholding of medically indicated treatment" defined?


### Answer
The term **withholding of medically indicated treatment** is defined in *42 U.S.C. § 5106g* as follows -

> the failure to respond to the infant's life-threatening conditions by providing treatment (including appropriate nutrition, hydration, and medication) which, in the treating physician's or physicians’ reasonable medical judgment, will be most likely to be effective in ameliorating or correcting all such conditions, except that the term does not include the failure to provide treatment (other than appropriate nutrition, hydration, or medication) to an infant when, in the treating physician's or physicians’ reasonable medical judgment—


(A) the infant is chronically and irreversibly comatose

#### Citation:
  - *42 U.S.C. § 5106g*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 67-CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT AND ADOPTION REFORM > SUBCHAPTER I-GENERAL PROGRAM**

