The Effect of Acupressure on Procedural Pain, Anxiety and Hemodynamic Variables During Chest Tube Removal

Inclusion Criteria: * With only one chest tube after open heart surgery, * 18 years of age or older, * Conscious and cooperative, * Speaks and understands Turkish, * General condition and hemodynamic variables are stable, * Planned surgical intervention, * No previous chest tube experience, * Acupressure/placebo acupressure without scars, scars, tenderness in the area to be acupressure, * No active COVID-19 infection, * Does not have any psychiatric diagnosis, * Not using psychiatric and/or local neuromuscular blocking drugs, * Patients who agreed to participate in the study (signed the Informed Consent Form) Exclusion Criteria: * No chest tube or multiple chest tubes after open heart surgery, * Under 18 years of age, * Conscious and uncooperative, * Speaking Turkish but not understanding it, * Unstable general condition and hemodynamic variables, * Underwent emergency surgical intervention, * Anyone with previous chest tube experience, * Wounds, scars, tenderness in the area where acupressure/placebo acupressure will be applied, * With active COVID-19 infection, * Has an existing psychiatric diagnosis, * Psychiatric and/or local neuromuscular blocking drugs, * Patients who did not agree to participate in the study (did not sign the Informed Consent Form).