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Filter by:Endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation are life-saving practices in patients with respiratory failure, and aspiration of secretions is often required to maintain airway patency. Although tracheal aspiration is an unavoidable requirement to maintain airway patency, it can bring many undesirable conditions. In the presence of complications, the duration of hospital stay is also prolonged. In the literature, endotracheal aspiration is defined as a painful and uncomfortable method for patients. However, pain is an undesirable sensation that cannot be adapted. The most reliable source for pain assessment is the patient himself. However, verbal communication with patients in the ICU is quite difficult due to reasons such as the presence of endotracheal tube and tracheostomy, confusion, mechanical ventilation, and sedative drug use. Therefore, intensive care patients may not be able to express their pain verbally. In this case, patient behavior becomes important in pain assessment. Scales were developed for pain assessment of patients who could not express their pain. The "Behavioral Pain Scale" (DAS) was developed by Payen et al. For this purpose and made available to intensive care patients. Patients who meet the inclusion criteria and agree to participate in the study when aspirating is required (Seeing pulmonary secretions in the endotracheal tube, tachypnea, tachycardia, hypertension, worsening of oxygen saturation and / or arterial blood gas, sawtooth pattern in the flow volume loop of the ventilator monitor and / or trachea Hearing of coarse breathing sounds, Ppeak inspiratory pressure increase in mechanical ventilator in volume-controlled mode, or tidal volume decrease in pressure-controlled mode, etc.) by a volunteer nurse, whether there is pain before, during and after aspiration, the severity and localization of the pain will be recorded by VAS and VAS. . The patient will be aspirated with the same aspiration technique in all patients by using a closed system aspiration catheter by the other volunteer nurse. Aspiration procedure will be applied to each patient according to the American association for respiratory care (AARC) aspiration guideline. The nurse evaluating the pain will record whether the patients have pain with DAS and VAS, the severity and localization of the pain