They're not erring on the side of caution when they rescuscisus someone with a tattoo or whatever. They're often subjecting that person to broken ribs and the risk of brain damage or worse. I wouldn't blame a doctor or paramedic for doing CPR if all they had to go on was a tattoo but I would expect them to immediately find out if I had a DNR on record, and go to whatever extra lengths they could to do so.
Why Doctors Die Differently
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A study ... of how CPR is portrayed on TV found that it was successful in 75% of the cases and that 67% of the TV patients went home. In reality, a 2010 study of more than 95,000 cases of CPR found that only 8% of patients survived for more than one month. Of these, only about 3% could lead a mostly normal life.
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Mostly normal meaning little or no brain damage.
This is the second study mentioned.