A patient controlled analgesia (PCA) is a generic term which refers to a method allowing a. person in pain to deliver their own pain relief. The PCA is used for the more continuous. control of moderate to severe pain, where oral or intermittent analgesia would be less. effective. The intravenous route is referred to as PCIA in this document, as opposed to the. epidural route, referred to as patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA).
Life insurance pays a death benefit to the stated beneficiary at the death of the insured. When the insured dies, the beneficiary of the policy files an insurance claim.ife Income. 1  Example: $100,000 death benefit-beneficiary (a 54-year-old male) elects the life income option. 2  Based on his life expectancy, the insurance company promises to pay the beneficiary $6,250 per year for life.
1 The proceeds of your limited payment life insurance policy can also be paid to your beneficiary in fixed amounts. 2  You tell the insurance company to pay, for example, $1000 per month to your spouse until the proceeds are exhausted. 3  This always amounts to considerably more than had the payments been made in a lump sum.