Among the more vital roles which a podiatrist takes on is to measure the vascular or blood supply condition to the foot and lower limb to ascertain if patients are in danger or not to inadequate healing as a result of blood circulation. If a person is at high risk for issues because of that, then steps really need to be considered to decrease that risk and protect the foot from injury, particularly when they've diabetes mellitus. The monthly live for Podiatry practitioners, PodChatLive focused an entire show to this topic. PodChatLive is a free continuing education live which goes live on Facebook. The supposed market is podiatry practitioners working in clinical practice, but the actual target audience include a lot of other health care professionals as well. In the stream there is lots of discussion and feedback commented on Facebook. Later on the recorded video version is published to YouTube and the podcast version is added to the most common sites like Spotify and iTunes.

In the show on vascular problems and evaluation of the foot the hosts chatted with Peta Tehan, a podiatrist, and an academic at the University of Newcastle, Australia and also with Martin Fox who is also a podiatrist and works in a CCG-commissioned, community-based NHS service in Manchester, UK where he delivers earlier recognition, analysis and ideal clinical therapy for people with assumed peripheral arterial disease. During the episode there was several real and useful vascular gems from Martin and Peta. They pointed out what a vascular evaluation should look like in clinical practice, the value of doppler use for a vascular evaluation (and prevalent errors made), all of us listened to several doppler waveforms live (and recognize how relying on our ears alone most likely are not perfect), and recognized the significance of good history taking and screening in people with known risk factors, particularly considering that 50% of those with peripheral vascular probalems are asymptomatic.