Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley B. Green, J.), entered October 18, 2011, which denied the motion of defendant Alex Boafo, M.D., for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against him, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.
The record shows that the infant plaintiffs mother, who was approximately 29 weeks pregnant, went to defendant hospital because she was having contractions. The mother was admitted to rule out pre-term labor and was started on magnesium sulfate, in an attempt to stop pre-term labor. She was also given the first of two doses of a steroid, to hasten fetal lung maturity, and underwent a sonogram.
Defendant Boafo, a perinatologist, performed and interpreted the sonogram. Dr. Boafo found that the umbilical cord and one of the infant’s arms was prolapsing into the lower segment of the uterus. Dr. Boafo reported these findings to the mother’s treating obstetrician and recommended immediate delivery. Three and a half hours later, the treating obstetrician performed a cesarean section.
In a medical malpractice action, a plaintiff must establish a deviation or departure from accepted practice and that such departure was a proximate cause of the plaintiffs injuries (see Frye v Montefiore Med. Ctr., 70 AD3d 15, 24 [2009]). To constitute proximate cause, the physician’s negligence must be a “substantial factor” in causing the injury (Mortensen v Memorial Hosp., 105 AD2d 151, 158 [1984]).
Here, dismissal of the complaint as against Dr. Boafo is warranted since he established his entitlement to summary judgment as a matter of law and plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact. Dr. Boafo submitted evidence showing that his recommendation, that the infant plaintiff be delivered im